In 2014, unsealed court documents revealed that in 2008, the US government threatened Yahoo with a fine of $250,000 per day if it refused to comply with broad demands for user data under the NSA's PRISM program . Context of "Yahoo.txt" Files
Simple text files containing thousands of email addresses used by spammers or for credential stuffing attacks. 250k yahoo.txt
Combinations of email addresses and passwords from various breaches, such as the 2012 "Yahoo! Voices" incident which exposed over 450,000 unencrypted credentials. In 2014, unsealed court documents revealed that in