CNN Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield February 27, 2014 17:48:00
These are just innocent unsuspecting yahoo account holders. how many people may have actually been compromised here? >> well, we don't know the exact number, but we can safely say in the millions. in one six-month period 1.8 million users had their web chats recorded. it wasn't the full conversation. basically what this program did is it took a snapshot, one snapshot, every five minutes. and it took all of those photos and stored them in a massive database. it appears to have been something called operation optic nerve. and it was something of an experiment to try and match facial recognition ...
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