Marissa Mayer has long been an inspiration for innovative women battling to break through the gender barriers in the male-dominated technology industry.

AOL and Yahoo are being sold again, this time to a private equity firm.

Football journalist Terez Paylor died suddenly this week at the age of 37, according to reports Tuesday night. Yahoo Sports shared a statement from Paylor’s fiancee, Ebony Reed:It is with a heavy heart that we announce that our beloved friend, colleague and Yahoo Sports journalist Terez Paylor has passed away. “Terez was an exceptional journalist whose passion for football made him a respected voice. “More important, Terez was a devoted son, grandson, brother, an adoring fiancé, and a wonderful friend to so many. To know him was to love him.”Here is a statement from the Yahoo Sports Editor-In-Chief Johnny Ludden:

CNN MONEY(CNN) - Was your Yahoo account among the 3 billion struck by multiple data breaches between 2013 and 2016? You might be eligible for a $358 payout or two years of free credit monitoring. Eligible users can submit claims at Yahoodatabreachsettlement.com to receive at least two years of free credit monitoring services by AllClear ID. In 2016, Yahoo disclosed two massive data breaches: One in 2013, when an unauthorized third party stole user data, and another in 2014, the work of a "state-sponsored actor," the company said. You could earn up to $25,000, too, if you provide proof of out-of-pocket losses or loss of time during the data breaches.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. - A former Yahoo employee pleaded guilty in a federal court in San Jose Monday to hacking thousands of Yahoo users' accounts and searching for private records, the US Attorney's office in the Northern District of California said in a statement. He made copies of images and videos that he found and stored them at home, the US Attorney's office said. Ruiz was charged with one count of computer intrusion and one count of interception of a wire communication, but under the plea agreement pleaded guilty to just the computer intrusion charge, the statement says. Ruiz is currently released on a $200,000 bond and has a sentencing hearing scheduled for February 3, 2020, the US attorney's office said. He could face five years in prison for the computer intrusion charge and a fine of $250,000, plus restitution, the office said in its statement.

Verizon said Monday it has agreed to sell Tumblr to Automattic, the parent company of Wordpress.com. The move will make Automattic the third company to own Tumblr in just six years. "Tumblr is one of the Web's most iconic brands," Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg said in a statement. Yahoo acquired Tumblr for $1.1 billion in 2013, making it the largest acquisition of former CEO Marissa Mayer's tenure. In a statement Monday, Verizon Media CEO Guru Gowrappan said the deal to sell off Tumblr was "the culmination of a thoughtful, thorough and strategic process."