{"id":181534,"date":"2016-10-05T09:43:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T07:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=181534"},"modified":"2016-10-05T09:46:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T07:46:32","slug":"secret-yahoo-software-spied-on-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/181534-secret-yahoo-software-spied-on-emails.html","title":{"rendered":"Secret Yahoo software spied on emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo developed software that helped the US\u00a0government search through its users&#8217; incoming emails, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-yahoo-nsa-exclusive-idUSKCN1241YT\">Reuters reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The searches were conducted based on information US intelligence officials supplied, stated the report.<\/p>\n<p>Citing former employees, the report said Yahoo was\u00a0complying with a classified demand from the US government.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of millions of Yahoo accounts were scanned on behalf of the NSA and FBI.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters said\u00a0it is not clear what the intelligence agencies were looking for, and it could not find out what data Yahoo handed over.<\/p>\n<p>They also don&#8217;t know whether the NSA, FBI, or other\u00a0government agencies went to other US-based email providers with a similar request.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on security<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/180632-the-fbi-can-read-all-your-email-and-youll-never-know.html\"><strong>The FBI can read all your email, and you\u2019ll never know<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/180596-hackers-steal-personal-data-from-500-million-yahoo-accounts.html\"><strong>Hackers steal personal data from 500 million Yahoo accounts<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo secretly built software to help the US government sift through its users&#8217; emails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":86761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,39184,23215,2744],"class_list":["post-181534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-federal-bureau-of-investigation-fbi","tag-national-security-agency-nsa","tag-yahoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181542,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181534\/revisions\/181542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}