Yahoo studied the correspondence of users on-demand security services
To analyze the emails of its users Yahoo were scanning the emails of its users in 2015 at the request of the national security Agency of the United States or the FBI, reported Reuters, citing its sources.
This software was programmed to search for a specific combination of symbols in emails in real-time. However, the sources do not have information, gave the company the collected data to the security services.
To do this, the head of the company Marissa Mayer ordered to create its employees with special software, but project implementation was carried out without coordination with the information security service Yahoo.
According to the report, the head of the service Alex Stamos eventually resigned after learning about the enforcement of special services. Subordinates of Shimosa shortly after starting the program-the spy has detected it in the system and took for hackers.
Recall, 23 September, the chief information security officer at Yahoo Bob Lord said about the data breach 500 million accounts as a result of hacker break-in that occurred in the 2014th year.
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