Yahoo shares fall as hack endangers Verizon deal

James Covert
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 14:01:46 -0500

Yahoo’s stock plunged as much as 6.5 percent on Thursday on worries that a second, massive email breach will scuttle Verizon’s $4.83 billion purchase of the web portal. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo said late Wednesday it discovered an August 2013 cyber-attack had compromised the data of more than 1 billion user accounts — the largest breach...