Senators call Yahoo's delay in revealing breach of 500m accounts 'unacceptable'
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Six lawmakers question why it took Yahoo two years to discover breach as experts warn of the implications of the record-breaking haul of password data
Six Democratic US senators on Tuesday said it was "unacceptable" that Yahoo only last week announced a 2014 hack into 500m user accounts and asked embattled CEO Marissa Mayer for more information about the company's investigation into the data breach.
The lawmakers said they were "disturbed" the two-year-old intrusion was detected so long after the hack occurred. "Millions of Americans' data may have been compromised for two years," the senators wrote in a joint letter addressed to Mayer. "This is unacceptable."
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