December 08, 2016
A judicial panel has consolidated five putative class actions over a 2014 Yahoo Inc. security breach in which hackers lifted the names, passwords and other account data of at least 500 million users, putting the multidistrict litigation under the purview of the Northern District of California's Judge Lucy Koh.
September 23, 2016
Yahoo Inc. was hit with three proposed class actions in California and Illinois federal court Friday, just one day after it revealed that hackers infiltrated its systems in late 2014 and lifted names, hashed passwords and other account data tied to at least 500 million users.