Last September, Yahoo confirmed the rumor that weeks before it was preparing on the Internet and that it had to do with the alleged hackers attack that had endangered the data of many millions of users. The company confirmed that it had suffered a hacker attack in 2014 and that had affected at least 500 million accountsAccording to the company, he had found out a few weeks before making the official announcement, but it really was not. According to the investigation being carried out by the Securities Market Commission, the company knew perfectly well about the attack it had suffered two years ago.
Yahoo hid the attack on its servers from users and in which hackers had access to email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, password reminders, security questions (including answers) ... The first rumors that were published in September this year, came out brought to light by a hacker who was trying to sell all that information through the Deep Web, for just over $ 2.000, an amount that apparently no one was willing to pay for data that had been stolen two years ago.
This event, along with the software that the company created so that American national security agencies could access any email account have been sufficient triggers for Verizon to be considering canceling the Yahoo purchase agreement, an agreement that it had closed last June for 4.800 billion dollars, since Yahoo's reputation, both as a company and as a service provider internet leaves much to be desired. The latest news related to this process, affirms that Verizon is requesting a reduction of 1.000 million in the final agreed price, although at the moment nothing has been officially confirmed.