By Rob Tricchinelli, Bloomberg BNA
The Securities and Exchange Commission should scrutinize whether Yahoo! Inc. adequately disclosed the widespread data breach it suffered in 2014, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said on Monday.
“The public ought to know what senior executives at Yahoo knew of the breach, and when they knew it,” Warner said in a letter to SEC Chairman Mary Jo White.
More than half a billion user accounts were affected by the 2014 breach, which was made public by the company Sept. 22. The breach contained user names, email addresses, phone numbers, encrypted passwords and some unencrypted security questions and answers.
Yahoo learned in July ...
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