The biggest data breach in history just tripled in size. Yahoo announced Tuesday that every single one of its 3 billion accounts were hacked from a 2013 breach. At the time of the attack, Yahoo claimed 1 billion accounts had been hacked, but after Verizon took over Yahoo, the company investigated further and discovered that all …
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Now playing: Watch this: Find out if your Yahoo account was hacked 1:21 The Yahoo hack is the biggest publicly disclosed data breach of all time. Getty Images In September 2016, Yahoo revealed a hack that compromised 500 million user accounts. In December, the company revealed yet another hack, this time affecting a record 1 billion accounts. On Tuesday, Yahoo …
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Brian Acton, a co-founder of the popular messaging app WhatsApp, said Tuesday he will leave the Facebook-owned company to launch his own foundation. Acton, who founded the popular messaging app with WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum in 2009, said in a Facebook post his foundation will focus on the intersection of nonprofit, technology and communications. “It’s something I’ve thought about for …
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Three years ago CNET addressed whoever might step into Mozilla‘s then-empty CEO slot and asked 10 questions about the future of the nonprofit organization behind the Firefox browser. It was a chaotic time, with Mozilla co-founder Brendan Eich quitting after a controversy over his stance on gay marriage, and Google‘s Chrome increasing its threat as the browser of choice for …
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Citing anonymous sources, Recode has reported that AOL and Yahoo are about to make over 1,000 layoffs as they get set to merge under a new media division at Verizon. This, the report notes, is still less than 20 percent of the total workforce. The two companies are set to be merged under a new media division at Verizon called …
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It was a chilly January night in Las Vegas as Danny Bowman and I hopped on our LeEco smart bikes in a dim parking lot of the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino. The chief revenue officer of LeEco — an enigmatic Chinese company positioned as one part Samsung, one part Netflix and many parts unbridled ambition — had spent the …
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, with a nearly religious zeal, has said for years his mission is “making the world more open and connected.” But in the last few weeks, that more open and connected world has led to headlines about violence, murder and, most recently, revenge porn shared on his social network. People have used Facebook Live, the company’s video …
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Apple may have a next-gen Apple Watch ready for the fall, but rival Fitbit hopes to get out ahead with a new, upscale device that could arrive slightly earlier. A series of leaked images, first appearing on the Yahoo Finance website, purport to show a new gold-colored device that looks like an updated version of the current Fitbit Blaze. The …
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With T-Mobile tearing up the wireless industry, what’s a carrier to do? If you’re AT&T, start looking outside the wireless business. AT&T doesn’t want to be known as just a telecom company anymore. It’s using its DirecTV Now streaming service to take control of what you watch and of how you watch it. AT&T owns one of the key services …
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Production snafus may be tripping up the launch of a Fitbit smartwatch designed to compete with the Apple Watch. The product is set to hit shelves in the second half of the year, after design problems — like misplaced antennae fouling up GPS and trouble with waterproofing — delayed them from a planned launch in the first half, according to …
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