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Polish e-commerce and hosting group cyber_Folks has PLN 1 billion (approximately €232 million) in acquisition capacity following a June share sale of its Vercom communications platform subsidiary, reducing its net debt-to-adjusted-EBITDA ratio to 0.31 times. Management stated at a September 4 results conference that M&A activity will concentrate on e-commerce rather than hosting, with one or two deals potentially closing by year-end, though hosting remains the highest-margin segment at 51.1 percent adjusted EBITDA. The company has completed acquisitions of PrestaShop (€53.97 million, closed February 2026), a 49.9 percent stake in Shoper, and Romanian host Hosterion (€6.7 million) since 2025, signaling an active pipeline despite previous statements of no planned M&A activity.

The Yahoo-Verizon acquisition demonstrates how cybersecurity incidents discovered post-closing can trigger both valuation adjustments and regulatory liability. Verizon's discovery of Yahoo's undisclosed billion-user breaches during post-signing diligence resulted in a USD 350 million purchase price reduction, plus USD 35 million in SEC penalties for Yahoo's failure to timely disclose the breaches and USD 80 million in shareholder litigation settlements. The DOJ's April-May 2025 settlement with Raytheon, RTX Corporation and Nightwing under the False Claims Act reinforces that acquirers face successor liability for targets' pre-existing cybersecurity non-compliance regardless of private contractual indemnities, with Nightwing named as successor in liability years after acquiring the non-compliant business unit.