Marissa Mayer asks for her annual bonus to be distributed to Yahoo employees

Hypothetically, say you are the CEO of a big tech company during a major breach. What would be an appropriate fallout?

Maybe no bonus? That is what Yahoo is thinking. And CEO Marissa Mayer is taking it a step further, asking that her bonus be distributed to Yahoo employees. But is this a real loss for Mayer?

In IT Blogwatch, we could use an extra couple million dollars.

So what is going on? Dan Goodin has some background:

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said she'll forgo her 2016 bonus and any stock award for this year after the company admitted it failed to properly investigate...attacks that compromised more than a billion user accounts.

So is this a real hit for Mayer? And what is going to happen to that money? Michael Liedtke has some more info:

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