I highly doubt the files are irretrievable. It's more likely it'd cost Yahoo a whole lot of time (or a large cost in getting specialist contractors) and they w

I highly doubt the files are irretrievable. It's more likely it'd cost Yahoo a whole lot of time (or a large cost in getting specialist contractors) and they would rather just risk facing bad PR than coughing up the money. Maybe they'll do the latter after some rethinking!