Yahoo to notify users when they’re targeted by state-backed hackers

By Rudy Takala
Published December 23, 2015 10:14pm ET
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Yahoo to notify users when they’re targeted by state-backed hackers
Yahoo is the third major tech company to introduce such a security measure. Facebook announced the same policy October, while Google did so in 2012. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg) | Andrew Harrer

Yahoo is going to begin notifying users when it suspects they’ve been targeted by state-backed hackers.

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