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Yahoo suffers world’s biggest hack affecting 1 billion users
Business
December 15, 2016
Yahoo suffers world’s biggest hack affecting 1 billion users
Yahoo has discovered a 3-year-old security breach that enabled a hacker to compromise more than 1 billion user accounts, breaking…
Yahoo calls for ‘transparency’ from US spy agencies
Science
October 20, 2016
Yahoo calls for ‘transparency’ from US spy agencies
Yahoo asked US spy agencies Wednesday to offer public "transparency" about data they make internet companies provide on users and…
Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for US intelligence: sources
Science
October 5, 2016
Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for US intelligence: sources
Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific…
Yahoo says hackers stole data from 500 million accounts in 2014
Business
September 23, 2016
Yahoo says hackers stole data from 500 million accounts in 2014
Yahoo Inc said on Thursday that at least 500 million of its accounts were hacked in 2014 by what it…
Yahoo buys social shopping website Polyvore
Science
August 1, 2015
Yahoo buys social shopping website Polyvore
Yahoo on Friday said it is adding to its lengthy roster of acquisitions with a deal to buy social shopping…
Report: Yahoo shutting office, cutting jobs in China
Life & Style
March 19, 2015
Report: Yahoo shutting office, cutting jobs in China
US Internet company Yahoo is shutting down its presence in China, laying off at least 200 people, Bloomberg News reported. The…
China releases prominent dissident early
Egypt
September 8, 2013
China releases prominent dissident early
Human rights group, PEN International announced late on Saturday that China had released prominent dissident and journalist Shi Tao from…
Yahoo ordered to appear in Egyptian court
Egypt
June 13, 2012
Yahoo ordered to appear in Egyptian court
Internet giant Yahoo was ordered Tuesday to appear in a Cairo courtroom after four former employees charged the company with…
Google, Microsoft: No law in Egypt on storing user data
Egypt
June 2, 2010
Google, Microsoft: No law in Egypt on storing user data
Microsoft and Google both say Egypt has no legislation obliging social networks and internet search engines to delete users' data…