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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Yahoo Inc.
Current Parent Company: Apollo Global Management
Penalty: $117,500,000
Year: 2020
Date: July 21, 2020
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: privacy violation
Mega-Scandal: Data Breach Liability
Violation Description: Yahoo agreed to pay over $117 million to settle litigation regarding multiple data breaches affecting tens of millions of customer accounts.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: private litigation
Court: Northern District of California
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Case ID: 5:16md2752
Case Name: n Re: Yahoo! Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: New York
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: private equity (including portfolio companies)
Specific Industry of Current Parent: private equity (including portfolio companies)
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