Yahoo only revealed details of 2014 hack to Verizon two days ago
by Rupert Neate in New York and Olivia Solon in San F from on (#1VSCJ)
Biggest data breach in history complicates Verizon's $4.8bn takeover of Yahoo, with executives refusing to give reassurances that they would press ahead
The future of Yahoo, once the darling of the internet, was plunged into crisis on Thursday following the revelation that it has suffered the biggest data hack in history - and took two years to notice.
Yahoo, which was worth $125bn at the height of the dotcom bubble in 1999, was forced to reveal "state sponsored" hackers had stolen data from more than half a billion people across the world.
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