Britain Fines Yahoo for Handling of 2014 Email Cyberattack

Britain’s data watchdog fined Yahoo roughly $334,000 for its handling of a massive email cyberattack in 2014 that exposed the personal data of millions of users worldwide. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) focused its investigation on approximately 515,121 email accounts of United Kingdom (U.K.) customers, which Yahoo's London-based U.K. Services oversaw.

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