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Re:Pastry Chefs Are in Demand, Why Aren’t Wages Rising? by jethro_tell on Thursday October 13, 2016 @07:23PM (#12705025)
What do you mean? I don't believe there was much indication that that cost yahoo anything at all? The stock didn't respond. I doubt many customers left. The page rank has not changed. And there is no indication from previous large breaches that the customer cares or at least thinks anyone else is doing it better.

So what leads you to think that the impact to a business (especially of comparable scale) would cause more financial impact if it was your average dev job vs a chef?

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Re:Pastry Chefs Are in Demand, Why Aren’t Wages Rising? by shagie on Thursday October 13, 2016 @07:44PM (#12705135)
The stock was being held up by Version's offer. They've asked for a discount of 1B, and are considering backing out altogether. The stock will probably respond then.

> "We're looking to Yahoo to demonstrate to us the full impact they believe it's not," Silliman said. If Verizon concludes the breach had a material impact on Yahoo's business, then a key condition of the deal would not be met, he said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/10/13...

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Re:Pastry Chefs Are in Demand, Why Aren’t Wages Rising? by emodendroket on Thursday October 13, 2016 @08:02PM (#12705233)
Yeah, Yahoo was already dying of attrition anyway. I suspect the majority of those accounts were not active.
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Re:Pastry Chefs Are in Demand, Why Aren’t Wages Rising? by jethro_tell on Thursday October 13, 2016 @08:43PM (#12705404)
That doesn't affect the alexa ranking. They still have a lot of traffic, and there's no indication it slowed in the month following.
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