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According to our sources Yahoo\u2019s chief information security officer, Bob Lord, is losing out to AOL\u2019s Chris Nims for the security chief\u2019s chair of new umbrella entity, Oath<\/a>.<\/p>\n This is as a result of the AOL-Yahoo merger, with Verizon\u2019s acquisition of Yahoo<\/a> expected to close next week.<\/p>\n The jockeying for SVP positions within the combined entity has seen several Yahoo senior managers taking the leadership reigns at Oath at the expense of their AOL counterparts.<\/p>\n But when it comes to security the optics were always going to look unkind for Lord \u2014 given Yahoo\u2019s still recent reveal that it suffered the worst (known) data breaches in history.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve reached out to Lord and Nims for comment but at the time of writing neither had responded. Yahoo also declined to comment. While AOL, which is the parent company of TechCrunch, did not respond to our requests for comment.<\/p>\n But multiple sources have told us that Lord will not be Oath\u2019s CISO.<\/p>\n Lord only took up the CISO post at Yahoo in November 2015, taking over after Yahoo\u2019s systems had already been compromised \u2014 though as yet unbeknownst to its security staff.<\/p>\n The two massive hacks, with at least 500 million Yahoo accounts compromised at least as early as 2014 in one breach, and a further one billion accounts hacked in August 2013, were not discovered and disclosed by Yahoo until last<\/a> year<\/a>. Earlier this year<\/a> the DoJ accused Russian spies \u2014 working alongside Russian criminals \u2014 of perpetrating one of the hacks.<\/p>\n Speaking about the moment he realized the scale of the hacks, at TC Disrupt New York last month<\/a>, Lord described the feeling of dawning horror as akin to vertigo.<\/p>\n The reputational damage to Yahoo from the revelations of the data breaches ended up knocking\u00a0$350M off its\u00a0sale price<\/a> to Verizon.<\/p>\n As we reported earlier this week, around 15 per cent of global headcount<\/a> across AOL and Yahoo is being culled as a result as part of the integration by parent company Verizon.<\/p>\n NB: AOL is also TechCrunch\u2019s parent company<\/em><\/p>\n Featured Image: TechCrunch<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/tcdisrupt-ny17-8475.jpg?w=680\")
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