Yahoo’s stock plummeted Thursday as cybersecurity issues continued to rankle the company and reports surfaced that Verizon was looking to change the terms of – or possibly abort – its planned $4.8 billion acquisition of the early internet darling.
Yahoo shares were down more than 6 percent when trading desks closed Thursday, only a day after the company announced a 2013 hack had compromised more than a billion user accounts. Names, email addresses, passwords, phone numbers, birthdays and “in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers” were potentially accessed in the breach.
