The indictments might let the beleaguered CEO breathe a small sigh of relief.
Marissa Mayer says she’s ‘grateful’ to the FBI and Justice Department for their efforts.
If you’re a Yahoo user, you might be happy to hear the FBI and Department of Justice got the Russian hackers responsible for a massive cyberattack in 2014. But there’s another person who’s showing a measure of gratitude as well: Marissa Mayer.
Yahoo’s CEO tweeted her appreciation on Wednesday.
“Very grateful to the FBI & DOJ for bringing to justice the Russian officials & hackers who led the attack on Yahoo,” Mayer wrote .
To recap: The Justice Department said Wednesday it charged four hackers responsible for a data breach at Yahoo that compromised 500 million user accounts in 2014. The company disclosed the attack, the second-largest online breach ever, in September. Two of the alleged hackers were Russian spies under the Federal Security Service, the country’s equivalent of the FBI in US, while the other two were identified as hired criminals.
Chris Madsen, Yahoo’s assistant general counsel, had the same sentiment as Mayer.
