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Yahoo! Mail is a web-based email service offered by the American company, Yahoo!. The service is free for personal use, and paid-for business email plans are available. It was launched in 1997, and, according to comScore, was the third-largest web-based email service with 281 million users as of December 2011.
Problems in the last 24 hours
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Yahoo! Mail users through our website.
- Sign in (45%)
- Errors (28%)
- Website Down (27%)
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The most recent Yahoo! Mail outage reports came from the following cities:
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
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 Centro
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Sign in | 17 hours ago |
 Township of Heath
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Website Down | 18 hours ago |
 Paris
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Errors | 21 hours ago |
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Paris
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Website Down | 1 day ago |
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Cergy
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Sign in | 1 day ago |
 Gafsa
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Errors | 2 days ago |
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Yahoo! Mail Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Irshaad Ally (@AllyIrshaad) reported@YahooCare hey there. Having issues with my yahoo mail. I don’t want to share my email here but I need some help. Please.
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LMarie (@barefootfifer) reported@mary_aster She doesn’t have a recovery email? Or phone number? Go to the Yahoo Mail to the sign in helper. If she can’t remember her user name or password, it will send to the recovery email and she can get in from there. If her info has changed and she can’t remember, email or call yahoo
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The Chelsea Boy (@Kstar_CFC) reported@Yahoo @Yahoo I was trying to login to my yahoo mail, only for you to send code to a number I didn't know about. You have no sections where I interact with customer in your website. Please I need a quick assistance about that. Thanks
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Offensive Lab (@OffensiveLab) reportedNew research shows content inside an email can escape its message boundary and interfere with the webmail interface. Across attack chains spanning Outlook, Gmail, Fastmail, Proton Mail, Yahoo Mail, and AOL Mail, the techniques can capture passwords, take over third-party accounts, leak tokens, hijack trusted UI actions, and manipulate AI tools that read email. PortSwigger researcher Gareth Heyes presented the work at Black Hat USA 2026. One Outlook/Firefox chain spoofs a Microsoft sign-in screen and captures the password a recipient types. A Yahoo/AOL paste race can expose a Medium email-login token and let an attacker sign in as the victim. A Gmail/Cowork chain can exfiltrate a Slack token after prompt injection and user interaction. The paper presents proof-of-concept research and does not report malicious exploitation. Public PoCs remain available as of August 8. The researcher said Fastmail fixed two CSS mutation bugs and a Proton Mail proxy bypass stopped working when he retested it, while Outlook label-jacking and Gmail's image-set() bypass still worked when the research was published on August 6. The paper does not state whether the full Outlook password-capture chain was fixed. For webmail providers, the paper recommends isolating HTML email in sandboxed iframes and tightly restricting CSS, custom attributes, select menus, and image requests.
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scaryjello (@scaryjellomj) reportedWhen I access Yahoo mail from the PC, I have no trouble up/downoading files to/from my local machine. Now, Yahoo app doesn't even give me clear option to download. What the hell is this? I wish I could interface with my Android phone more like a Linux PC, which it is
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xavier lois (@xavierlois) reportedAfter forcing its storage down to 15 GB @Yahoo forced the new UI of yahoo mail on me! Enough is enough ... time to leave. 🤬
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Ahmad Fauzan (@skerkdekirk) reported@hrm_xklusiv24 @sidrachain Same thing happen with me and i also register using yahoo mail. Why cant they just let us login using our password or authenticator app like before 😓
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Matt (@321Matt1) reported@yahoomail @YahooCare I have consistently had problems with receiving 2FA emails sent to my Yahoo Mail account. It’s happened repeatedly when sent from a variety of different companies. So I don’t think it’s all the other companies. I think the problem is on your end. Please fix this problem.
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Audee (@GraphicIdentity) reportedWhat is the best browser to open the @yahoomail I use Chrome and the UX is terrible 🥲😥😭😭 @YahooCare I wish my blog editor staff doesn't use #yahoomail 🙄🫤
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Time For A Change (@timeforachange4) reported@Yahoo @yahoomail is refusing to help me I have two factor on my account and it’s not sending me a code to either one of those phone numbers which is crazy because they’re on there and there’s gotta be a way to email someone at Yahoo to fix this this is urgent
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MathPolice (@MathPolice) reported@B5DEAN @yahoomail 100% This is a big problem @yahoomail. Started 6/2 or 6/3. Please fix!
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J J. Physikē (@JJ_Physike07) reported@SidraCex What about we that uses yahoo Mail to registered our account with SIDRA and are using it always in the past to login through KYCport ?
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Diary Of A Spaced Human (@Ed0king_) reported@iamveektoria_ @pips_daily Hello veeky, I got a project on mercor and it asked me to sign in with my @merco.expert goggle account... The issue is I created it with a yahoo mail. I would like to know how to proceed.
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Three Bs (@BuraBem) reported@EmmanuelAfula Please look into the Celia App OTP delivery bug! Those of us using Yahoo Mail are completely locked out because the system isn’t sending verification codes to Yahoo. We need an alternative login option or a way to switch our emails to Gmail. @CeliaWallet 🚨
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Oluwamuyiwa313 (@oluwamuyiwa313) reported@yahoomail if there’s a problem with generating codes for email recovery you should at least tell your users so that we can switch on to another serious mail service…what’s this madness all about in sending out codes for text messages
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Sam B (@SamB126809) reported@Yahoo @yahoomail @YahooFinance what is wrong with your advertising content/banners/ads? they're memory hogs and grinds my browser to a crawl and my laptop fan starts spinning. what are you loading that's so heavy? has been an issue for years. I try to avoid your sites
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Dannys Beard 🟢⚪🍀⚪🟢 (@Dannys_Beard) reportedThe new Yahoo mail is laggy & terrible UI, hate it @YahooCare
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J J. Physikē (@JJ_Physike07) reported@SidraCex Some of us are still stock on the human verification one account. Because I used yahoo Mail to registered my SIDRA account And I have tried using it to do the verification to enable me login, but I am not receiving OTP code from yahoo Mail.
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Yamnaya (@yamnaya9) reportedRight on man I will. To my shame I haven’t read books in like ten years since I became a digital research junkie and really need to. I love writing and had started a book ten years ago I had the first chapter and titles for every chapter with the concept totally outlined. Lost access to my yahoo mail due to changing numbers and using a fake name and it was lost. Within the next decade I will return to a new one I have tons of ideas I write down. But need to just read for a few years first for inspiration. Look forward to this one, very precisely in my exact interests
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HIGHBURY HAMBURGERS (@choparteta) reportedan account being blocked & pestered by @Yahoo @yahoomail scumbags to login to his account..a password is not sufficient enough anymore..to all holders deactivate yahoo accounts
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TejasKat (@TejasKat) reported@yahoomail @Yahoo WHAT AN UTTER MESS YOU HAVE MADE TO MY EMAIL ACCOUNT WITH YOUR PATHETIC --NEW-- EMAIL PRODUCT!!! ALL OUT OF ORDER! DEFAULTED TO A BIG FAT MESS! I CANNOT CHANGE IT BACK! I have been using your email for 15? years! !!! FIX . IT !!! #YahooEmail #YahooEmailFIASCO
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His Royal Majesty (@hrm_xklusiv24) reported@sidrachain I can't login with my registered yahoo email, if I use Gmail instead, it directs me to start verification again on a new account, my account has been verified fully, why can't I gain access back into my already existing account? Codes are not been sent to my registered yahoo mail
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Bakhtiar Ali (@Iambakhtiarali) reported@maljafeiri @maljefairi @sidrachain Yahoo mail OTP are receiving. Can't login to the sidrachain account.
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Brian Dean (@B5DEAN) reported@yahoomail I’ve been with you guys forever and all of a sudden this week it’s like your filters are not working. I am getting so much spam in my inbox, where I never did before. How can I fix this.?
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Chris Frantz (@frantzfries) reportedYahoo Mail putting down numbers Netflix could only dream about
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👽 (@thghstwthmst) reported@Yahoo can someone PLEASE help me get back into my email? The sign in helper does not help! 😭 #yahoo #yahoomail
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Lnn (@LN11) reported@Yahoo @yahoomail @YahooCare no you don't! Today not even 12 NOON, (102) SPAM EMAILS and counting!! FIX THIS NOW!!!
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im_cheikha (@imcheikha) reported@yahoomail @vick_urban Hello, I'm having the same problem. For a month now, my phone got wet and was completely destroyed. I bought a new phone, and since then, when I try to connect, it tells me they've sent a notification to my old phone, which is no longer usable. What's the solution?
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Emmanuel OBISESAN (@el_obisesan) reportedThe new yahoo mail layout is terrible ngl
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🇯🇴Mohammed Olyan (محمد عليان) (@molyan1978) reported@yahoomail we've been unable to open the Yahoo Mail app for four days. We've tried every troubleshooting step but it's still not working. Could you please explain why and help resolve this?