US judge says that Yahoo must face lawsuits over data breaches

https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/3/16249850/yahoo-must-face-lawsuits-data-breaches

by Larrikin • 9 years ago

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edison85• 9 years ago

Good, anyone who has read through the complete and utter disaster of this mess and horrible risk management and avoidance of culpability deployed by the executives would 100% agree. They knew their security was bad, purposefully did nothing and criticized those that argued. They knew data was hacked, did nothing telling no one to change passwords. Only after the breach was made public, did they do anything. Honestly I wish the hammer gets dropped and we see jail time to stop the precedent of gross negligence in handling data and security

mtgx• 9 years ago

It would be really ironic if Marissa Mayer's fear of going to jail for not cooperating with the NSA would turn true. Except she would go to jail for cooperating with the NSA and leaving the backdoors in, which others may have later exploited to cause the data breaches.

I think it would send the right message to every other tech company executive even considering doing back room backdoor deals with the NSA.

adrianratnapala• 9 years ago

Remember that for anyone to go to jail, prosecutors must prosecute. And this will open up space for within-government backroom deals, presumably between the DOJ and security forces. All done under the shadow of whatever the president wants.

Still, less spectacular good things might happen anyway, through civil procedures such as this. Besides, populist calls for for jailings set of my own BS detector. Better if this kind of lawsuit actually gets won or lost on rational grounds and over time becomes a serious incentive to people making business decisions. And, I'd say we have a long way to go before we get to that goal-state.

jacquesm• 9 years ago

Yahoo! isn't German.

peterkelly• 9 years ago

Does this include the case in which the attacker was the US government, facilitated by Yahoo's CEO, and kept secret even from its chief information security officer?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/04/yahoo-sec...

subru2• 9 years ago

2014 was ugly; yahoo finance news articles used for malicious harassment... not unlike the forces that corrupt this very website. Sorry HN, you too have been infiltrated by malicious forces, the difference of course is that user content creates a deniably divider (just like Reddit or other similarly designed sites).

subru2• 9 years ago

I think it's about time I go public with my experiences in USA society.

US judge says that Yahoo must face lawsuits over data breaches

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