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Yahoo fined £250k after 515k UK accounts compromised for personal data included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords, and encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers.

Yahoo! fined £250,000 after systemic failures put customer data at risk Yahoo! UK Services Limited has been fined £250,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) following a cyber-attack in November 2014. The incident was publicly disclosed in September 2016, almost two years after it had taken place.

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ICO smites Bible Society, well fines it £100k... Vengeance for poor security sins in face of cyber attack