Yahoo must fear to look after Verizon

Theft of Yahoo data could have draconian consequences: the sale of the company on the Internet is now on the edge of the abyss. Perspective Verizon wants to clearly express the price, or even perforate the deal.

Yahoo web page
After data was stolen by Yahoo users about 1 billion, Verizon obviously seems to be too high savings billions.

After the release of a second major data theft at Yahoo, the sale of Verizon's Internet activities is eligible. The telecommunications company is currently checking a price reduction as well as a freeze on the acquisition, reported the Bloomberg News Agency on Thursday night, quoting informed individuals. The company said only it will assess the consequences of the change before it put "final conclusions".

Unknown aggressor could copy 2013 including names, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, user account data over 1 billion, birth dates and - technically insufficient - hide passwords. The company attributes the attack to the actors "with the support of the government". Only in September, was made public that unknown in another case could steal data from 500 million Yahoo users.

Verizon announced in July to take over Yahoo's Internet business for about $ 4.8 billion and merge with its online subsidiary of AOL. Aimed at upgrading the company with content and advertising to compete with Google and Facebook. Yahoo had made for sale, after being unable to separate the shareholding of the Chinese group Alibaba non-taxable for shareholders. So far, it is expected to complete the transaction in the first quarter of 2017.

Investors reacted shocked on new messages. Thursday in early trade up to five percent to about 39 dollars, the lowest level since August lost the Yahoo stock.