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Yahoo! data breaches, the Glossary

Index Yahoo! data breaches

In 2013 and 2014, the American web services company Yahoo was subjected to two of the largest data breaches on record.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 45 relations: ABC News (United States), Al Franken, Alex Stamos, Alexey Belan, Altaba, Ars Technica, Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, BBC News, Bcrypt, CNBC, CNN, Darknet market, Data Protection Commissioner, Dmitry Dokuchaev, Ed Markey, Edward Snowden, Elizabeth Warren, Engadget, FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal Office for Information Security, Federal Security Service, Gmail, Hacker, HTTP cookie, List of data breaches, Lowell McAdam, Marissa Mayer, Mark Warner, MD5, Patrick Leahy, Reuters, Richard Blumenthal, Ron Wyden, San Diego, The New York Times, The Verge, The Wall Street Journal, TheRealDeal, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, United States Congress, United States District Court for the Southern District of California, Verizon, Vice (magazine), Yahoo!.

  2. 2016 crimes in the United States
  3. August 2013 crimes in the United States
  4. Data breaches in the United States
  5. December 2016 events in the United States
  6. Email hacking
  7. Hacking of Yahoo!
  8. Identity theft incidents
  9. September 2016 events in the United States

ABC News (United States)

ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC.

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Al Franken

Alan Stuart Franken (born May 21, 1951) is an American politician and comedian who served as a United States senator from Minnesota from 2009 to 2018.

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Alex Stamos

Alex Stamos is an American computer scientist and adjunct professor at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation.

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Alexey Belan

Alexey Alexeevich Belan (Алексей Алексеевич Белан; born June 27, 1987) is a Latvian and Russian hacker on the FBI's list of most wanted criminals.

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Altaba

Altaba Inc. was a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company based in New York City that was formed from the remains of the first incarnation of Yahoo! Inc. after Verizon had acquired old Yahoo's Internet business.

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Ars Technica

Ars Technica is a website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society, created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998.

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Article 29 Data Protection Working Party

The Article 29 Working Party (Art. 29 WP), in full the Working Party on the Protection of Individuals with regard to the Processing of Personal Data, was an independent European Union advisory body on data protection and privacy.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Bcrypt

bcrypt is a password-hashing function designed by Niels Provos and David Mazières, based on the Blowfish cipher and presented at USENIX in 1999.

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CNBC

CNBC is an American business news channel owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of Comcast's NBCUniversal.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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Darknet market

A darknet market is a commercial website on the dark web that operates via darknets such as Tor and I2P.

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Data Protection Commissioner

The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (An Coimisinéir Cosanta Sonraí) (DPC), also known as Data Protection Commission, is the independent national authority responsible for upholding the EU fundamental right of individuals to data privacy through the enforcement and monitoring of compliance with data protection legislation in Ireland.

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Dmitry Dokuchaev

Dmitry Aleksandrovich Dokuchaev (Дмитрий Александрович Докучаев) is a Russian convicted cyber criminal and a former intelligence officer of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the principal security agency of Russia.

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Ed Markey

Edward John Markey (born July 11, 1946) is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Massachusetts since 2013.

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Edward Snowden

Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is a former American NSA intelligence contractor and a whistleblower who leaked classified documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs.

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Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Ann Warren (née Herring; born June 22, 1949) is an American politician and former law professor who is the senior United States senator from Massachusetts, serving since 2013.

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Engadget

Engadget is a technology news, reviews and analysis website offering daily coverage of gadgets, consumer electronics, video games, gaming hardware, apps, social media, streaming, AI, space, robotics, electric vehicles and other potentially consumer-facing technology.

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FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives

The FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives is a most wanted list maintained by the United States's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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Federal Office for Information Security

The Federal Office for Information Security (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, abbreviated as BSI) is the German upper-level federal agency in charge of managing computer and communication security for the German government.

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Federal Security Service

The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB or FSS) is the principal security agency of Russia and the main successor agency to the Soviet Union's KGB; its immediate predecessor was the Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK) which was reorganized into the FSB in 1995.

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Gmail

Gmail is the email service provided by Google.

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Hacker

A hacker is a person skilled in information technology who achieves goals by non-standard means.

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HTTP cookies (also called web cookies, Internet cookies, browser cookies, or simply cookies) are small blocks of data created by a web server while a user is browsing a website and placed on the user's computer or other device by the user's web browser. Yahoo! data breaches and HTTP cookie are Internet privacy.

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List of data breaches

This is a list of reports about data breaches, using data compiled from various sources, including press reports, government news releases, and mainstream news articles. Yahoo! data breaches and list of data breaches are Internet privacy.

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Lowell McAdam

Lowell Clayton McAdam (born May 28, 1954) is an American businessman.

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Marissa Mayer

Marissa Ann Mayer (born May 30, 1975) is an American business executive and investor who served as president and chief executive officer of Yahoo! from 2012 to 2017.

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Mark Warner

Mark Robert Warner (born December 15, 1954) is an American businessman and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Virginia, a seat he has held since 2009.

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MD5

The MD5 message-digest algorithm is a widely used hash function producing a 128-bit hash value.

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Patrick Leahy

Patrick Joseph Leahy, (born March 31, 1940) is an American politician and attorney who represented Vermont in the United States Senate from 1975 to 2023.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Richard Blumenthal

Richard Blumenthal (born February 13, 1946) is an American lawyer and politician who is the senior United States senator from Connecticut, a seat he has held since 2011.

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Ron Wyden

Ronald Lee Wyden (born May 3, 1949) is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Oregon, a seat he has held since 1996.

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San Diego

San Diego is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast in Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Verge

The Verge is an American technology news website headquartered in Lower Manhattan, New York City and operated by Vox Media.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.

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TheRealDeal

TheRealDeal was a darknet website and a part of the cyber-arms industry reported to be selling code and zero-day software exploits.

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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government, created in the aftermath of the Wall Street Crash of 1929.

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United States Congress

The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.

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United States District Court for the Southern District of California

The United States District Court for the Southern District of California (in case citations, S.D. Cal.) is a federal court in the Ninth Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit).

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Verizon

Verizon Communications Inc., is an American telecommunications company headquartered in New York City.

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Vice (magazine)

Vice (stylized in all caps) is a Canadian-American magazine focused on lifestyle, arts, culture, and news/politics.

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Yahoo!

Yahoo! (styled yahoo! in its logo) is an American web services provider.

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See also

2016 crimes in the United States

August 2013 crimes in the United States

Data breaches in the United States

December 2016 events in the United States

Email hacking

Hacking of Yahoo!

Identity theft incidents

September 2016 events in the United States

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_data_breaches

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