Yahoo fined £250,000 over 2014 data breach

Yahoo's British subsidiary has been fined £250,000 by the UK's data watchdog after losing the data of more than half a million people.The fine is equivalent to just less than 50p for ever British user who was affected by the attack and follows another fine of $35m (£26m) issued by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.Although the data breach took place in 2014, Yahoo kept the loss of around 500 million international users quiet until 2016.