Marissa Mayer misses out on Yahoo bonus as true scale of forged cookies security breach is revealed

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is not going to receive her annual bonus this year as the company punishes her for failing to react quickly enough to a security breach in 2014. Her bonus is to be shared between staff instead. The security breach, followed by another in 2016 involving the use of forged cookies, meant Yahoo's sale to Verizon had to be renegotiated, slashing millions of dollars from the price. The company has revealed that around 32 million user accounts were accessed used forged cookies, and while this is nothing like the 500 million accounts affected by the 2014 breach,… [Continue Reading]