UK watchdog issues $330k fine for Yahoo’s 2014 data breach
https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/12/uk-watchdog-issues-330k-fine-for-yahoos-2014-data-breach/
Another fallout from the massive Yahoo data breach that dates back to 2014: The UK’s data watchdog has just issued a £250,000 (~$334k) penalty for violations of the Data Protection Act 1998.
Yahoo, which has since been acquired by Verizon and merged with AOL to form a joint entity called Oath (which is also the parent of TechCrunch), is arguably getting off pretty lightly here for a breach that impacted a whopping ~500M users.
That'll teach them!