Running Head: YAHOO
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CIS512 2 Week Assignment
Strayer University
April 22,2022
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An organization that has violated U.S. privacy laws and regulations the recent past in
is is in Yahoo. The company, which a well-known internet service provider, was involved a
major data breach incident. The company confirmed in the year 2016 that the sensitive data of
approximately 500 million user accounts could be exposed a result of the data bre as ach
incidents that had taken place 2016). Even though the incident took place 2014, the (BBC, in
company revealed it to the public only in 2016. According to Trautman & Ormerod (2016),
hackers had succeeded invading the digital system of the company and ste ing the in al
sensitive information of users that used Yahoo services. The information that was
compromised the attack included names, birthdays, email addresses, hashed passwords and in
