Yahoo must pay $50 million in damages to victims of one of the world's biggest data breaches Internet.
Yahoo agreed to pay 50 millions dollars as compensation to the victims of a attacks which reportedly affected around 200 million people. In addition, the company will provide at least two years of free monitoring on the purchases of those involved. 
The settlement that comes into force on Monday concerns two separate violations, which took place at 2013 and 2014.
The first attack affected three billion Yahoo accounts (yes all of the company's accounts). The company said at the time that the theft of the source code allowed attackers to access any account they wanted, even though the passwords access were not stored in plain text.
In the second attack, the company reported that 500 million accounts were leaked (names of email addresses, phone numbers, birthdays, encrypted and non-secure passwords, security queries, and replies).
Data breaches were not revealed at that time, but 2016, a delay that caused the wrath of not only the public but also investors. The impact was catastrophic for Yahoo's reputation at a time when Verizon's acquisition of the company was being prepared.
Yahoo was taken over by Verizon 2016 and although the original price was set at 4,8 billions of dollars, after the announcement of hacks the price fell by 350 millions.
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