Yahoo's Delay in Reporting Hack 'Unacceptable', Say Senators (zdnet.com)

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Yahoo's Delay in Reporting Hack 'Unacceptable', Say Senators (zdnet.com)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @04:50AM from the tell-me-why dept.

Yahoo won't be able to get away with its mega data breach from 2014 that it only reported this month. Six senior senators have said Yahoo's two-year delay in reporting the largest known data breach in history is unacceptable. The senators have asked Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer to explain why the massive hack of more than 500 million accounts wasn't reported two years ago when the breach occurred. From a ZDNet report:The senators said they were "disturbed" that a breach of that size wasn't noticed at the time. "That means millions of Americans' data may have been compromised for two years. This is unacceptable. This breach is the latest in a series of data breaches that have impacted the privacy of millions of American consumers in recent years, but it is by far the largest," the letter wrote. Sens. Patrick Leahy, Al Franken, Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumenthal, Roy Wyden, and Edward Markey signed the letter, dated Tuesday. The senators also requested a briefing to senate staffers on its incident response and how it intends to protect affected users.

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Yawho? by tripleevenfall · 2016-09-27 05:00 · Score: 4, Funny

Sources say nothing of value was lost, as the breach only impacts people who still use Yahoo.
1. Re:Yawho? by sbrown7792 · 2016-09-27 05:04 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  the breach only impacts people who still use Yahoo.
  Right, the senators were impacted and that's why they care.
2. Re:Yawho? by RavenLrD20k · 2016-09-27 06:35 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  We're talking about senators here... you can't spew that much bullshit without having impacted bowels.
  Oh, by the way: your attempt at pedantry fails as a secondary definition for impacted literally means "strongly affected by something." Or, to see for yourself read #9 on the linked page. Also; by literally I mean that to be without exaggeration or inaccuracies.
No authority by mveloso · 2016-09-27 05:03 · Score: 5, Insightful

The Senate has no authority over Yahoo. Why does the Senate care how long it takes to report a data breach?
If they want, they can write a law and grant that authority to an agency.
2 years by Oswald+McWeany · 2016-09-27 05:31 · Score: 5, Funny

It took them 2 years to report the breach because they were using the Yahoo search engine to try and find the appropriate people to report the breach to.

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