Has Yahoo been hacked or perhaps are the servers down?
In a related report by The Inquisitr , Yahoo email accounts were compromised by hackers and one Yahoo malware attack affected thousands .
Yahoo officials claimed it should just be a matter of changing passwords to keep your information safe:
“We are resetting passwords… we are using second sign-in verification to allow users to re-secure their accounts. Impacted users will be prompted (if not, already) to change their password and may receive an email notification or an SMS text if they have added a mobile number to their account.”
Some people do not buy Yahoo’s explanation that it was a third party database that was hacked . Since many people tend to use the same user names and passwords across all account this seems plausible, but critics point out that the only evidence for this is Yahoo not finding “a hole its own systems. Actually, the only evidence Yahoo has that the hack of a third party might be to blame.”
But now people attempting to access Yahoo.com are receiving the message “connection refused,” and even the email system is down at the moment.
No one on Twitter knows what is going on:
Yahoo! is down! How will I be contacted by Nigerian princes?
— Evan J’daté Kessler (@EvanJKessler) February 4, 2014
#Yahoo is down for the count. Gee, did I really want to see my email?
— KastleWaserman (@KastleWaserman) February 4, 2014
This is a developing story so we’ll update you when we find out why you’re seeing Yahoo down for the count.
[UPDATE] The Yahoo servers are already back up but there’s no notice on why it happened. This is apparently one of several times Yahoo has been down this past month. But Google has also been experiencing some outages.
