Yahoo penalties £ 250,000 in the UK.
The United Kingdom Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined £ 250,000 for the UK Department of Consumer Data Security Violations.
According to the organization, in 2014, "state-sponsored" hackers have grabbed personal information of over 50 million subscribers. These information contained customer names, email addresses, unsigned security questions and answers.
It is said by the ICO that Yahoo failed to take necessary steps to protect this data.
On behalf of Yahoo, it is said that they did not comment on policy makers' steps.
80 million customers in the UK were infected due to the data security violation In the investigation of the ICO, it was found that the Yahoo! under-processed data processor failed to ensure that the 'right data protection policy' was going on. It is not certain whether the information of the employees accessing the data on the customer's data has been monitored. The "long enough time" before identifying the errors that caused this security was due.
In 2010, Verizon bought the US telecommunications company Yahoo and launched a new organization named Oath, with the AOL.
