Friday 30 September 2016

Yahoo whodunnit: Mystery surrounds hackers behind massive breach

A week after Yahoo said it was subjected to the worst data breach in history, details about who nabbed info on 500 million email accounts remain sketchy.

At least one firm says it wasn’t a “state-sponsored actor” as Yahoo claimed, but like many things related to hacks, cybersecurity and the dark web, even that claim is impossible to verify.

“The group responsible for the Yahoo hack are cybercriminals,” said Andrew Komarov, chief intelligence officer at InfoArmor. The companyposted a report on Wednesday detailing the involvement of “Group E,” a hacking syndicate that InfoArmor says it has been monitoring in dark corners of the internet for some time.

The FBI is currently investigating the data breach but hasn’t put forward a theory publicly about who is behind it. For the full article click here 



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