Yahoo’s Ex-CEO Mayer Calls Out Russian Hackers
Marissa Mayer today publicly apologized for two massive data breaches at Yahoo during her tenure as CEO of the company, and blamed Russian nation-state hackers for their infiltration of the systems.
“As CEO, these thefts occurred during my tenure, and I want to sincerely apologize to each and every one of our users,” she said in her testimony to the Senate Commerce Committee, according to a Reuters report.
“Unfortunately, while all our measures helped Yahoo successfully defend against the barrage of attacks by both private and state-sponsored hackers, Russian agents intruded on our systems and stole our users’ data,” she said.
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