Business isn't looking too good for Yahoo.
The tender sex videocompany that is in the midst of being sold to Verizon has just been exposed for secretly building software to search all of its customers' emails for information at the request of U.S. intelligence officials, Reutersreported Tuesday.
SEE ALSO: Thanks for nothing, YahooAccording to two former employees speaking anonymously to Reuters, the company complied to the request that was sent from either the National Security Agency or the FBI to Yahoo's legal team.
The software reportedly had the ability to search all of Yahoo Mail accounts in real time.
It is not known if Yahoo handed any information over to the government.
“Yahoo is a law abiding company, and complies with the laws of the United States," Yahoo said in a statement to Mashable.
The decision came even as Yahoo had previously fought against such government requests that violated user privacy. In 2007, Yahoo fought against the NSA's PRISM program, the classified program on tapping user data that also included companies like Google Facebook, Microsoft and Apple. Yahoo ended up losing that battle.
This time around, according to report, Yahoo did not put up a fight. That decision, by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, reportedly led to the resignation of Alex Stamos, formerly Yahoo chief security officer who later joined Facebook.
The U.S. government could have made this request to other tech companies as well.
Glenn Greenwald, a journalist for The Intercept who also has worked with Edward Snowden on stories about the U.S. government's data collection, speculated that other companies were at least asked to do something similar.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
Microsoft said in a statement, "We have never engaged in the secret scanning of email traffic like what has been reported today about Yahoo.”
Both Twitter and Google not only denied engaging in the same type of practice but said it never received such a request from U.S. officials.
"We've never received such a request, but if we did, our response would be simple: 'no way,'" a Google spokesperson wrote in an email to Mashable.
“We've never received a request like this, and were we to receive it we'd challenge it in a court," a Twitter spokesperson wrote to Mashable.
Twitter also pointed to a lawsuit the company filed in 2014 over the ability to reveal such surveillance requests. "Separately, while federal law prohibits companies from being able to share information about certain types of national security related requests, we are currently suing the Justice Department for the ability to disclose more information about government requests," Twitter wrote in its statement.
Facebook and Apple responded to Mashable's requests for comment later Tuesday evening.
"Facebook has never received a request like the one described in these news reports from any government, and if we did we would fight it," a Facebook spokesperson wrote in an emailed statement.
“We have never received a request of this type. If we were to receive one, we would oppose it in court," Apple said in a statement.
The report comes two weeks after Yahoo officially admitted to a hack of at least 500 million user accounts. One former executive estimated that between 1 and 3 billion accounts could have been affected.
Verizon, which announced in July it would acquire Yahoo's core assets for $4.83 billion, issued a statement in response to the hack. The telecom declined to comment on the Reutersreport.
Topics Cybersecurity Privacy Yahoo
Trump who? Tech giants join massive effort to uphold Paris Agreement
YouTube says all those ads you watch are worth it
Little boy decorated his entire kitchen with carrots
Morrissey calls music industry a 'nest of horrors' and cancels 6 shows
Blockchain Explained: How It Works, Who Cares and What Its Future May Hold
Nigel Farage is mocked on Twitter over a spelling error
Yup, Beyonce's 'Lemonade' just got an Album of the Year Grammy nom
The first photo from a new Earth
The Steam Machine: What Went Wrong
Beyoncé could soon have the most Grammys of any female artist ever
Cyrix: Gone But Not Forgotten
LeBron James is biggest name yet to avoid Trump hotels
Indians mourn as iconic actress turned politician Jayalalithaa dies
Stunning Instagrams capture woman's 4,500 mile flight as human swan
SpaceX will try to achieve 2 impressive feats on Monday
David Beckham's tattoos turned into animated illustrations for an important reason
Eric Berry's poignant homecoming is this week's feel
Grammys 2017: 5 things to know about this year's nominees
How to Get Your Significant Other Into Gaming
The first photo from a new Earth
The Art of Distance No. 32 by The Paris ReviewA Medieval Mother Tries Distance Learning by Esther Liberman CuencaRedux: The Feeling of an Airplane Crashing by The Paris ReviewIs It Too Scary? by Eula BissStaff Picks: Witches, Glitches, and Governesses by The Paris ReviewStaff Picks: Haiku, Hearts, and Homes by The Paris ReviewThe Alien Gaze by C Pam ZhangDeath’s Traffic Light Blinks Red by Cathy Park HongThe Art of Distance No. 26 by The Paris ReviewRedux: Sightseer in Oblivion by The Paris ReviewThe View Where I Write by John Lee ClarkAll the Better to Hear You With by Sabrina Orah MarkThe Nature of Gary Snyder by Robert HassRedux: A World Awash in Truth by The Paris ReviewThe Rings of Sebald by Daniel MendelsohnMale Interiority: An Interview with Emma Cline by Annabel GrahamThe Art of Distance No. 31 by The Paris ReviewFeminize Your Canon: Alice DunbarScenes from a Favela by The Paris ReviewBuilding Character: Writing a Backstory for Our AI by Mariana Lin Mozilla gives up on Firefox OS, its mobile Man indicted on arson and fraud charges from pacemaker data Charles Barkley has a very NSFW message for his haters White House site security error is more 'embarrassing' than worrying Trump administration begins altering EPA climate change websites One hashtag is uniting Americans in the fight against Trump The Minnesota Twins gave Beyoncé the perfect gift for her pregnancy announcement Elon Musk defends meeting with Trump: 'Does not mean I agree' Comcast's huge Trump protest started on Slack A family found a rattlesnake in their toilet — then 23 more Drew Barrymore is all about that zombie mom life in Netflix's 'Santa Clarita Diet' This robot flies like a real bat and is not at all creepy The war between Vanity Fair and Trump intensifies 'Sharknado 5' is here to destroy the world Beyoncé was trying to tell us about the twins this whole time and we are fools Vikings Season 4 finale: How Ragnar's death scene changed everything Norwegian paper publishes spectacularly viral Donald Trump burn Japan's largest messenger app is taking on Slack with chat for work Bruce Springsteen trolls Trump's Australian call in the best way YouTube is playing around with video thumbnails that move like GIFs
1.2069s , 8612.65625 kb
Copyright © 2025 Powered by 【tender sex video】,Information Information Network