Marvin Gavin, who worked at Four11 as the director of international business development, said "We always had a bias about being acquired by Yahoo.

eliminated free software client access and introduced the $29.99 per year Mail Forwarding Service.

Spokeswoman, told CNET, "For-pay services on Yahoo!, originally launched in February 1999, have experienced great acceptance from our base of active registered users, and we expect this adoption to continue to grow.

[15] Along with this new design, new features were to be implemented, including drop-down menus in DHTML, different category tabs, and a new user-customizable color scheme.

Network Services senior vice president Geoff Ralston stated that The launch of Yahoo!

continues to demonstrate leadership and innovation by offering consumers the industry's most complete and powerful email solution.

Oddpost had features such as drag-and-drop support, right-click menus, RSS feeds, a preview pane, and increased speed using email caching to shorten response time.

Mail reported slow typing speeds, contradicting Yahoo's claims of faster performance.

The new interface overrode the browser's right mouse button (making functions such as opening mails in new tab windows unavailable).

redesigned the site and removed several features, such as simultaneously opening multiple emails in tabs, sorting by sender name, and dragging mails to folders.

[citation needed] Many users objected to the unannounced nature of the changes through an online post asking Yahoo!

[27] The redesign produced a problem that caused an unknown number of users to lose access to their accounts for several weeks.

[34] In January 2014, an undisclosed number of usernames and passwords were released to hackers, following a security breach that Yahoo!

again redesigned the web interface with a "more minimal" look, and introduced the option to customize it with different color themes and layouts.

A 2005 version included a new Ajax interface, drag-and-drop, improved search, keyboard shortcuts, address auto-completion, and tabs.

does not tolerate this practice and terminates accounts connected with spam-related activities without warning, causing spammers to lose access to any other Yahoo!

This resulted in many unintended corrections, such as "prevent" (prevalent), "revalidation" (evaluation) and "media review" (medieval).

explained that the changed words were common terms used in their privacy dashboard and were blacklisted to prevent hackers from sending damaging commands via the program's HTML function.

[44][45] In 2004, Yahoo's Hong Kong office provided technical information to the Chinese authorities about the account of journalist Shi Tao, who was subsequently sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for "leaking state secrets".

[48] In August 2007, the United States Congress began an investigation into Yahoo's handling of the case.

for not giving full details to the House Foreign Affairs Committee the previous year, stating it had been "at best inexcusably negligent" and at worst "deceptive".

no longer controlled its Chinese operations, and was collaborating with human rights groups to formulate ethical code for technology companies.

Mail was banning the word "Allah" in email usernames, both separately and as part of a user name such as linda.callahan.

also made the following statement:[56] We continuously evaluate abuse patterns in registration usernames to help prevent spam, fraud and other inappropriate behavior.

We recently re-evaluated the term 'Allah' and users can now register for IDs with this word because it is no longer a significant target for abuse.

We regularly evaluate this type of activity and will continue to make adjustments to our registration process to help foster a positive customer experience.In November 2012, an exploit for Yahoo!

[57][58][59] In January 2013, hacker and security researcher Shahin Ramezany pointed out another DOM-based XSS loophole that placed 400 million users at risk.

was the email service used by New Zealand Telecom, which came under criticism in early 2013 following a spam and phishing attack that was described as the biggest to have ever hit the country.

[65] This information updates the December 14, 2016, announcement that more than 1 billion user accounts were hacked in a breach that had occurred in 2013.

[67] The company was said to have discovered about the breach that affected hundreds of millions of accounts years before their initial announcement.