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Defending Against Hackers Took a Back Seat at Yahoo, Insiders Say (nytimes.com)
5 points by zorked on Sept 28, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Utter negligence:

"Ms. Mayer also rejected the most basic security measure of all: an automatic reset of all user passwords, a step security experts consider standard after a breach. Employees say the move was rejected by Ms. Mayer’s team for fear that even something as simple as a password change would drive Yahoo’s shrinking email users to other services."




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