Federal Lawsuits Filed In Wake Of Latest Yahoo Data Breach Announcement

Mealey's (December 20, 2016, 8:49 AM EST) -- SAN JOSE, Calif. — With the lodging of a Dec. 16 complaint against Yahoo! Inc. in California federal court, at least four putative class actions have been filed since the internet firm’s Dec. 14 announcement of a recently discovered hacking incident that compromised the personally identifiable information (PII) associated with 1 billion user accounts (Hector M. De Avila Gonzalez v. Yahoo! Inc., No. 5:16-cv-07206, N.D. Calif.)....