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Yahoo Scanned User Emails for U.S. Government
- Reuters, Wednesday, October 5, 2016 11:13 AM
Yahoo reportedly created a classified software program that allowed the U.S. government to scan users emails for specific information. The company allegedly scanned hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts in real time to search for keywords provided by intelligence agencies. The news comes after news that Yahoo was hacked and exposed the user data of 500 million accounts.
