Executives were riled when Yahoo president Marissa Mayer complied
Yahoo company has been secretly scanning its clients emails through a software which searched its customers' emails for
specific information requested by US intelligence officials, Reuters
reports.
Former employees at the company claim hundreds
of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts were being scanned following a
request from either the National Security Agency or FBI.
Yahoo's
decision to comply with the request is said to have infuriated some of
the company's top executives - especially as the tech giant's security
team was not involved in building the secretive program which scoured
messages.
When the security team discovered the software, they
thought it had been created by hackers, and reportedly found a
programming flaw which meant a hacker could have accessed the emails
flagged up as including the phrase intelligence officials had specified.
It
is not clear whether Yahoo handed over any of the data obtained through
the searches, which began last year, to intelligence agencies.
source://news.sky.com
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