I've Been Mugged: Yahoo! Inc. Faces Lawsuit Over Its Data Breach

Wednesday, August 08, 2012

Yahoo! Inc. Faces Lawsuit Over Its Data Breach

You may remember that earlier this year, Yahoo! suffered a data breach which where about 450,000 users' passwords were stolen. Bloomberg.com reported that Yahoo! was slapped with a lawsuit claiming negligence that led to its data breach. Allan v. Yahoo! Inc. was filed on July 31 in U.S. District Court in Northern California. Jeff Allan, the lead plaintiff in the class-action suit, reportedly received a fraud alert when hackers attempted to break into his eBay account, which had the same sign-in credentials.

Posted on Wednesday, August 08, 2012 at 09:58 AM in Corporate Responsibility, Court Cases, Data Breaches, Social Networking | Permalink

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Posted by: Don Number | Thursday, August 30, 2012 at 03:31 AM

For sure I do remember, since my younger daughter had her password stolen and had to face an attempt of fraud towards her friends.

Posted by: chantal | Monday, September 03, 2012 at 02:47 AM

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