Not long ago, it was rumored where data from the user's email service Yahoo stolen by a hacker. Not tangung-hearted, the amount of user data that is taken there are about 500 million more. Spontaneous many users are worried because they think their privacy has been tampered with. A lot of speculation how could the case that struck in 2015 occurred.
As one of which is the allegation regarding the involvement of the United States government. Excerpted from The Hacker News, Wednesday (10/05/2016), stated that the involvement of the United States government is due to want to get to spy on users of the email service.
From several sources, Yahoo touted to design special programs for the sake of the NSA and the FBI after the court approved the agreement in secret. The program also will scan every email contained on Yahoo's email service users, which amounts to hundreds of millions more. The goal of course to monitor accounts suspected by the NSA and the FBI. Even the security team of the Yahoo did not know the existence of this program.
Earlier, in 2008, Yahoo rejected from the NSA surveillance program PRISM, even the court gave sanction to a fine of 250 thousand USD per day. The case became known through documents uncovered in 2014 ago. Not giving up, by 2015 end US intelligence officials again approached Yahoo, Marissa Mayer and Ron Bell.
They both agree, unfortunately, from the information supply does not involve Yahoo's security team when the process. So they asked the security team to create a program that can scan email users with a special string, and can be retrieved remotely.
This information was reportedly circulated after several weeks of news regarding user data compromised Yahoo email service. They claimed that the cyber attack was supported by the government so that more than 500 million users of information about the data leak.
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