Data Breaching at Yahoo - Analysis and Consequences

Running head: DATA BREACHING AT YAHOO
DATA BREACHING AT YAHOO
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1DATA BREACHING AT YAHOO
Introduction
The article regarding data breaches in Yahoo at 2014 has been published in MIT
Technology Review. The article is written byJamie Condliffe. The main idea of the paper is to
discuss about data and the security breaches happened in Yahoo(Condliffe 2018). The main
focus is on the data breach happened in the year 2014. The paper discusses about the
consequences those were happened due to the data breach in Yahoo.
Summary
The paper discusses about various data breaches happened in the yahoo from 2012 to
2018. However, the main focus can be set on the data breach happened in year 2014. The series
of events those have happened from 2012 to 2018 will help to identify the problems and the
areas responsible for the data breaches and the security threats in the systems of the organization.
The data breach happened in the year 2014 is regarding an attempt of hacking of the email of the
consumers. The organization had forced to admit the data breach in this case. The hackers used
list contained username and the password acquired from the third party server to hack the email
of the users(Condliffe 2018). In order to stop the data breaching yahoo rest the passwords of the
users. It can be said that Yahoo has taken immediate step to stop the data breach whichis positive
step (Dayanim and George 2018). However, the happening of this incident is not acceptable as
Yahoo is a famous organization and the users expect that this organization will provide better
security. The overall analysis indicates the type of the data breaches.
Analysis:
The topic is about the data breaches of Yahoo in 2014. However, the article has discussed
about the various security and the data breached happened in Yahoo from 2012 to 2018. The