Another fallout from the massive Yahoo data breach that dates back to 2014: The UK’s data watchdog has just issued a £250,000 (~$334k) penalty for violations of the Data Protection Act 1998. . Yahoo, which has since been acquired by Verizon and merged with AOL to form a joint entity called Oath (which is also the parent of TechCrunch), is arguably getting off pretty lightly here for a breach that impacted a whopping ~500M users. The link for this article located at TechCrunch is no longer available. . The UK's information authority has fined Yahoo $334,000 for breaches related to a 2014 security incident that affected the personal data of 500 million accounts. Yahoo Data Breach, 2014 Data Incident, UK GDPR Violations. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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