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Yahoo will pay 50 million dollars (43.5 million euros) to victims of the big data leak that occurred in 2016. In addition, personal information about three billion accounts have arrived on the street.
Compensation is part of a judicial settlement reached by Yahoo, writes Tuesday The Associated Press . The prosecution has been going on for two years.
Information was stolen from three billion accounts, including e-mail addresses. The settlement concerns about one billion accounts belonging to some 200 million people from the United States and Israel.
The data breach was only revealed in 2016, while Yahoo knew it since December 2014. Because the company has been hiding it for so long, the part of Yahoo, which now operates under the name of Altaba, was fined $ 35 million last April.
in 2016. The US telecommunications provider Verizon wanted to take over some of Yahoo, but decided to reconsider that after the revelation of the leak. Verizon finally paid $ 350 million less for the acquisition of Yahoos' Internet business.
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