Yahoo! misfortunes seem to have no end. Fifteen years ago Yahoo! was one of the largest companies born and raised on the Web, but today is the pale shadow of itself, massacred by bad news at a rate of two or three a year.
After the news of the 2014 security breach, which the company said have been coordinated by a foreign power that compromised 500 million accounts, and after those about the leak of 2013, which involved a billion Yahoo! profiles, the latest news is about another 32 million users whose account have been hacked.
(32 million, 500 million, a billion. One billion.)
The attack was accomplished using fake session cookies, forged on the proprietary code of Yahoo! sites (obtained probably during one of the previous assaults), and in the last two years, there has been unauthorized access to tens of millions of users, without the need of a password.
We’re sorry for Marissa Mayer, CEO since 2012, who was refused a bonus from the board (which will be donated to the employees of the company), and Verizon, which is buying Yahoo!, with all its past of technical crashes.