Security experts urge clients to stop using Yahoo Mail after spying report
Pressure on Yahoo soared Tuesday after publication of a report that it had collaborated with U.S. intelligence agencies to secretly scan hundreds of millions of its clients' emails.
The report by the Reuters news agency said Yahoo complied with a classified U.S. government directive last year demanding that it scan all incoming emails of its users for certain phrases. Yahoo's engineers wrote a program to carrying out the request, the report said.
Cybersecurity experts immediately demanded that their clients to halt using Yahoo Mail, and cast new pressure on the Sunnyvale, Calif., company as it attempts to finalize a $4.8 billion sale of its core business to Verizon. "Enough is enough. It's time to close your Yahoo account," Graham Cluley, a British cybersecurity expert, tweeted following the report.
