Yahoo problems spy Yahoo software built its customers e-Mails for United States scanning agencies

It seems there is no end. Last month, the struggling companies were that at least 500 million user accounts had damaged an infringement, which took place in the year 2014. It claimed that "State actors" for the fence were responsible, although a security firm denies this. Now, it has been shown that Yahoo secretly built custom software last year, all incoming clients emails for informational purposes available provided by US intelligence officers scanned. The report comes from Reuters Joseph Menn, citing three people familiar to the matter.

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That was Yahoo U.S. classified government request to comply when she created the scan tool, the hundreds of millions of users search e-Mails at the behest of the national security agency or the FBI. The software was looking for a specific string of characters, although it is unclear exactly what it sought words or phrases and which data, if any, Yahoo handed over to the authorities.

Yahoo problems spy Yahoo software built its customers e-Mails for United States scanning agencies

As Yahoo internal security team discovered the software, they initially thought it was the work of hackers. Company CEO Marissa Mayer resulted in decision to comply with the demand to Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos his position leave Facebook in June of 2015 Stamos, said, that a programming error hackers accessing the stored emails could have allowed.

The incident is the first known case of a company, the consent to an agency request to scan all incoming emails, rather than news or a small number of accounts probe stored in real time. "Yahoo is a law-abiding company and respects the laws of the United States," said the company in a statement.

The American Civil Liberties Union called the order "unprecedented and unconstitutional [...], it is deeply disappointing that Yahoo rejected this curved monitoring arrangement challenge, because customers include spying on novel technology company claims withstand Court."

I wonder how the candidates about Yahoo feel emails for NSA/FBI spying on each customer. Will they defend this shameful practice?

- Edward Snowden (@Snowden) 4 October 2016

Last year, Yahoo was notifies users to one of several companies that promised, whose accounts they suspect have come under attack by Government-sponsored hackers. Google, Facebook and Twitter have made the same promises as well.

Other technology companies have denied that they received similar demands from authorities. "" "We have never received such a request," a Google spokesman said, "but if we did, our answer would be simple:"not at all"."

Microsoft has condemned Yahoo: "We have never engaged in the secret scanning of e-Mail traffic as what has been reported about Yahoo, today."

Stamos of current employer said: "Facebook has never received a request as described in this news report from a Government, and if we did that, we'd fight it." and Apple, which had its fair share of problems with the FBI, said: "we have never a request of this type received. Would we get one, we would oppose it in court."

Whether the affect these new revelations of Yahoo's sale to Verizon is $4.8 billion remains to be seen.