"Yahoo says hack of 500 million users "state-sponsored, " but a security firm calls bullshit"

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: September 29, 2016 at 11:46:47 AM EDT
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] "Yahoo says hack of 500 million users "state-sponsored, " but a security firm calls bullshit"
>
>
> "Yahoo says hack of 500 million users "state-sponsored," but a security firm calls bullshit"
>
> http://boingboing.net/2016/09/29/yahoo-says-huge-hack-was-sta.html
>
>      So, that huge hack of 500 million Yahoo user accounts last
>    week that Yahoo blamed on a "state-sponsored actor"? A private
>    internet security firm is calling bullshit on the
>    "state-sponsored" part.  The hack of more than 500 million
>    account credentials was the work of an Eastern European
>    criminal gang, claims InfoArmor.  The Arizona-based firm
>    released a report Wednesday challenging Yahoo's claims that a
>    nation-state actor was behind the data heist.
>
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>
> --Lauren--
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