{"id":182412,"date":"2016-10-11T08:28:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T06:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=182412"},"modified":"2016-10-11T08:31:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T06:31:00","slug":"yahoo-disables-email-forwarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/182412-yahoo-disables-email-forwarding.html","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo disables email forwarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo has been hit with embarrassing security reports in recent weeks, which include <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/180596-hackers-steal-personal-data-from-500-million-yahoo-accounts.html\"><strong>hackers stealing the personal information of at least 500 million users<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/181656-mail-spying-software-report-is-misleading-yahoo.html\"><strong>mail spying by US intelligence agencies<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Many people indicated that they are leaving the mail provider, but Yahoo has made it more difficult by disabling email forwarding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_TEC_YAHOO_BREACH?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULt\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Associated Press reported<\/strong><\/a> that automatic email forwarding was disabled at the beginning of October.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile those who&#8217;ve set up forwarding in the past are unaffected, some who want to leave over recent hacking and surveillance revelations are struggling to switch to rival services,\u201d said the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/help.yahoo.com\/kb\/sln22028.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Yahoo said<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0the email forwarding feature \u201cis under development\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we work to improve it, we&#8217;ve temporarily disabled the ability to turn on Mail Forwarding for new forwarding addresses,\u201d said Yahoo.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read about Yahoo hacking<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/180596-hackers-steal-personal-data-from-500-million-yahoo-accounts.html\">Hackers steal personal data from 500 million Yahoo account<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo has disabled email forwarding following embarrassing revelations about security, and now says \u201cthis feature is under development\u201d.<\/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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,2744],"class_list":["post-182412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-yahoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182412"}],"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=182412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182414,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182412\/revisions\/182414"}],"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=182412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}