Creative Bojez quoted from Anatarnews, Sunday (25/09/2016), file a lawsuit was filed in federal court in San Jose, California, by Ronald Schwartz, a resident of New York, on behalf of all users of Yahoo in the United States, whose personal information leaked.
He tried to take the case into a class action with losses that can not be predicted.
As reported previously, Yahoo! ensure it has become a victim of hacker attacks resulting in leakage of personal data of about 500 million users of Internet services companies.
The stolen data included user names, e-mail address, telephone number, date of birth, password-protected bcrypt, and answer questions following security question.
"Our investigation concluded that the stolen information did not include passwords without encryption, payment card data or bank account information," Yahoo! said in a statement.
"We can confirm that a copy of a number of user information has been stolen from the company's network in 2014 by the actor who backed militia by the state," said Yahoo.
The announcement comes uncomfortable in the middle of the process of selling Yahoo Internet business worth 4.8 billion US dollars to the prospective buyer, the mobile operator Verizon. Great impact and scale that could affect the new owners.
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