12/12/2013
Yahoo Inc's
email service has been
unavailable to some
users since Monday night
due to a "hardware
problem" that the
Internet company said
has been harder to fix
than it expected. Yahoo
believes the problem will
be fixed by 3 p.m. PST
Wednesday, according
to a post on Yahoo's
official Tumblr blog by
the company's senior
vice president of
communications, Jeffrey
Bonforte. Bonforte did
not specify how many
users were affected by
the email outage, which
he said began at 10:27
p.m. PST on Monday. He
said the company has
"dozens of people
working around the
clock" to resolve the
problem. "The issue has
been harder to fix than
we originally expected,"
Bonforte said. Yahoo Mail
is the most popular
Web-based email
product among desktop
computer users in the
United States, according
to analytics firm
comScore.
