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Some Within Yahoo Knew of Massive Breach in 2014 (usatoday.com)
Some within Yahoo knew of a massive data breach that compromised its network when it occurred in 2014, not in late September, when it was first disclosed. From a report on USA Today: An independent committee of Yahoo's board, which launched an internal probe in August to learn more about the state-sponsored attack that affected data belonging to at least 500 million members, discovered that staff knew of the attack two years ago. "The company had identified that a state-sponsored actor had access to the company's network in late 2014," the company said In a filing with Securities and Exchange Commission.
I'll tell you what got breached. The establishment! Drain the swamp!
TRUMP 2020!
Let me guess, it's gonna be Russkis again, isn't it?
Of course, if Obumbles does pardon that corrupt harpy, she can't take the 5th Amendment when she gets put under oath....
How is it ethical to continue offering a service that you know is compromised?
She can join Hillary.
Yahoo
[yah-hoo, yey-, yah-hoo]
Spell Syllables
noun, plural Yahoos.
1.
(in Swift's Gulliver's Travels) one of a race of brutes, having the form and all the vices of humans, who are subject to the Houyhnhnms.
2.
(lowercase) an uncultivated or boorish person; lout; philistine; yokel.
3.
(lowercase) a coarse or brutish person.
Accurate.
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With the takeover of Yahoo! by Verizon, their people are trying to jump ship.
When they apply to us, any resume with Yahoo! on it goes to /dev/null. The reason being they don't have the skills.
When Yahoo initially claimed they were breached by a "state sponsored attack", my thoughts were: well - they would say that. Others - better informed - agreed. Now that claim is being spun as a "given", is there really any proof at all of that?
The first I heard about it was at the start of August. That appears to be when the "internal probe" was launched, it took them a further 6 weeks to go public.
Mielipiteet omiani - Opinions personal, facts suspect.
We already know this. That's what the whole story in late September was about: Yahoo was hacked and that information was kept from its customers for 2 years. Of course someone inside Yahoo knew about it.
Maybe this article is just to help stem the mass suicide from learning that Trump won the election.
It was transparently obvious to the rest of us that Yahoo had been breached long before 2014. Empirical evidence of the sheer rate and volume of account compromises (especially re-compromises) over the years compared to other similar services left little else as a plausible explanation. The worst possible news here for Yahoo is that they might be telling the truth and it really took them all the way until 2014 to notice themselves.
Wow, it sounds like the state-sponsored attack must have been the US government.
Can you imagine Yahoo employees keeping their mouths shut for that long if it was a Russian/Chinese/Indian/Iranian-sponsored attack? Or for that matter, even if the evidence wasn't solid, engage in wild speculation? See the recent allegation of Russian support for Trump broadcast as fact despite the lack of any hard evidence.
We know from the Snowden revelations that in addition to secret courts rubber stamping secret requests; plus active cooperation by most IT companies in creating automated systems to deal with the volumes of requests; that the NSA were nonetheless actively and covertly attacking major IT companies such that even Google/Yahoo/Facebook etc have all started encrypting internal network links over the past few years.
The state that sponsored the attack was their own.
Soros, Clinton's main backer, wants destroy the USA through Hillary and he's said so literally! He turned jews people over to Hitler and he is a Jew! Think he wouldn't do it to you when he does it to his own kind with no regret? Guess again. Hillary's also the Benghazi Libya embassy liar who broke national security laws with classified documents in her hom with her crony Comey who obviously was coerced into his faulty investigation! Why give away immunity when nobody was at fault? Soros is Hillary's puppeteer. So you know, you uninformed imbecile, Soros is known as the man who broke England's bank, tried to screw with the Russian and Polish economies (was banished literally from them too) ontop of dumping Thai currency and crushing other nations and is intent on burning down the US. He has literally said so. Soros the puppetmaster lunatic also literally said he's a God, and that's the first sign of psychotic breaks (Christ/God complex) stupid. He has also said rules do not apply to him as well. You wanted blatant crooks, liars, and maniacs running things? That makes you not only a crybaby fucking LOSER but also a stupid fuck. Get your shit straight fuckbrain! Trump's also going to help US workers by crushing H1B dumbass as well as job creation by for example forcing Apple to make their machines here not China! You are so stupid you don't even realize when you're being helped and who your pal is! What do losers do? Lose (crying about it). You're a loser by logic alone. You lose, loser. You lose and it seems like you like it as you want to keep on losing. Go away maniac dumbass or at least maintain your dignity and lose with grace instead of being a crybaby bitch!
Soros Clinton's backer says he wants ruin USA! He turned jews over to Hitler and is a Jew himself. He do it to you with no regrets when he would sell out his own kind.
Soros is Hillary's puppeteer. A globalist puppeteer for sellouts like Hillary who is also backed by other globalist bankers (she is a globalist herself or is not the CFR/Trilateral commision/Bilderbergers (iirc feel free to correct me what pack of criminals she's part of) she's part of not an example of it along with the bungle that is NAFTA?) who we paid to bail out no less in her IMF banker backers! The same bankers we borrow money from, with interest, to pay down the national debt interest. That means we can never ever get out of it. It's a trap dumbo. Get it? You want to back THEM?? You are one DUMB fuck!
So you know, you uninformed imbecile, Soros is known as the man who broke England's bank, tried to screw with the Russian and Polish economies (was banished literally from them too) ontop of dumping Thai currency and crushing other nations and is intent on burning down the US. He mainly does this through currency speculation and hedge funds.
Soros the puppetmaster lunatic also literally said he's a God and that's one of the first signs of psychotic breaks with reality (Christ/God complex) stupid. He has also said rules do not apply to him as well.
Hillary's also the Benghazi Libya embassy liar who broke national security laws with classified documents in her hom with her crony Comey who obviously was coerced into his faulty investigation! Rules apparently don't apply to her either! Why give away immunity when nobody was at fault?
You wanted blatant crooks, liars, and maniacs running things?
The last LAWYER we had running the show's results are poor and for a lawyer she sure likes breaking laws (see Benghazi and her email server with classified information on it). We don't need another one in Hillary (she is one too). We need a businessman to fix the business of the USA for the good! Trump does business.
That makes you not only a crybaby fucking LOSER but also a stupid fuck. Get your shit straight fuckbrain!
Trump's also going to help US workers by crushing H1B dumbass as well as job creation by for example forcing Apple to make their machines here not China!
You also have no respect for law and the law of the land is, Mr. Trump won. President WHO, loser? That's right.
You are so stupid you don't even realize when you're being helped and who your pal is!
What do losers do? Lose (crying about it). You're a loser by logic alone. You lose, loser. You lose and it seems like you like it as you want to keep on losing.
Go away maniac dumbass or at least maintain your dignity and lose with grace instead of being a crybaby bitch!
ROUGE ENGINEER strikes again!
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/09/the_hacking_of_.html
Yahoo can say "state-sponsored" till its blue in the face; doesn't make it true.