How Verizon delicately handled the Yahoo breach

While the tech world was left spinning in late 2016 when it was discovered that Yahoo suffered a massive breach, Verizon stayed calm. In the 72 hours immediately following the disclosure, the telecommunications giant which was moving to acquire Yahoo, reportedly made no snap judgments or assumptions, said Craig Silliman, Verizon’s EVP of Public Policy and General Counsel. After aligning their strategic interests with Yahoo, Silliman said that his first question was to ask about “the effect on the reason [Verizon] was buying this asset in the first place.” “We bought Yahoo for user and user engagement,” he said at the Wall Street Journal’s Cybersecurity Executive Forum in New York Wednesday. “So when you have a breach on the user, how that company reacts is important.” Silliman said he spent countless hours talking to C-suite level executives from both Verizon and Yahoo in the wake of the breach. During and […]

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