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Why did Yahoo take so long to disclose its massive security breach?

  • Written by Yanfang Ye, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University
imageNeed you announce you've been hacked? The clock is ticking.Woman with clock and megaphone via shutterstock.com

In late September, Yahoo announced that at least 500 million user accounts had been compromised. The data stolen included users’ names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth and encrypted passwords, but not credit card...

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