Sep, 2016 : State-Sponsored Actors Not Likely Behind Yahoo Breach


📅 - A report from InfoArmor, a cybersecurity firm in Arizona, shows state-sponsored actors are not likely behind the Yahoo breach. The company believes the theft of a half-billion Yahoo user credentials was carried out by cybercriminals in Eastern Europe.

The breach was announced by Yahoo last week and they blamed it on a state-sponsored actor in an official statement. InfoArmor has analyzed intelligence from many different sources and believes many of accounts of the incident are not accurate.

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