# Professor Scott Galloway weighs in on Yahoo's data breach

1 Faculty News September 23, 2016 ![AFP logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_033413.jpg?itok=zZaeBEKo)>

Excerpt from [AFP](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3804463/Huge-hack-blow-ailing-Yahoo.html) -- "Although the public has become habituated to news about data breaches, this news may erode confidence in the online ecosystem, according to [Galloway](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/scott-galloway). 'The hacks are more damaging to the ecosystem than individual companies,' he said. 'Ms. Mayer's obscene compensation and the hack give people the sense the game is rigged and that they can trust no platform.'"

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