AOL and Yahoo parent company Oath will be paying $5 million to settle its violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 or Coppa. The attorney general’s office said that AOL, through its ad exchange, placed targeted display ads using personal data, like cookies...
The Digital Industry Group, recently criticized Australia’s proposed piracy site-block amendments in its submission to the Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Bill 2018 consultation. The group, whose members include Google, Instagram, Yahoo, YouTube, Redbubble, and Oath, said that tech companies have spent thousands of hours and millions...
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh allowed Yahoo last week to settle a class action data breach lawsuit for $80 million which investors had filed in January 2017. The shareholders sued the internet giant for breaking federal securities law fraud, saying that it had failed to...
The Wall Street Journal said this week that Yahoo still scans its users’ emails and sells whatever data it collects to advertisers. While Oath, Yahoo’s parent company, confirmed the practice, it clarified that only promotional emails from retailers are scanned and users are given the choice...
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) last Tuesday handed Yahoo’s British subsidiary a fine of £250,000 ($334,000) for its 2014 data breach that affected around 500 million users. James Dipple-Johnstone, ICO deputy commission of operations, said that Yahoo’s failings which they had identified in their report...
Under Armour Inc revealed last Thursday that around 150 million MyFitnessPal diet and fitness app accounts had been compromised in February. The breach, considered to be one of the biggest in recent history, sent the shares of the athletic apparel maker down 3% in after-hours...
California judge Lucy Koh recently ruled that Yahoo customers who had been affected by the three breaches which had struck the internet company can sue. Verizon, which had acquired Yahoo last year, bid to have claims including breach of contract, deceit and concealment, and negligence dropped....
A 22-year old Canadian has pleaded guilty to charges brought by the US Department of Justice on Yahoo’s 2014 data breach case. However, it is said that the hacker, Karim Baratov, had the least significant role in the scheme. The three other suspects who were charged,...
Lawmakers were left frustrated last Wednesday as former Yahoo CEO and Equifax execs failed to answer some of the most basic questions regarding their data breaches. Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer could not give a straight answer to the committee when asked how the company’s database of three...
UK’s privacy watchdog recently expressed its disappointment with Yahoo’s disclosure of information regarding the massive hack that hit the company in 2013. Yahoo initially said that only one billion accounts were compromised. However, it was revealed that information including email addresses and security questions for all...