FROM YAHOO MAIL FACEBOOK PAGE - 14 minutes ago?

[Nikki]

We are very sorry for recent difficulties with Yahoo Mail.

Some of our users have not been able to access their mail since 10:27 PM PT on Monday night, due to a hardware problem in one of our mail data centers. The issue has been harder to fix than we originally expected.

We have dozens of people working around the clock to bring it to a resolution. We believe our current efforts will restore our users’ access to their inboxes by 3 pm PT today. We’ll post again then on our @YahooMail Twitter handle.

[xander]

Hi Nikki,

By now, most of the affected Yahoo Mail users should have access to their accounts on the web, POP and through our mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows 8.

There are a small number of users whose accounts have been brought online within the last several hours who may temporarily not see messages from before the outage. We’re working hard to fully restore these inboxes. In the meantime, these users should be receiving the backlog of emails sent during the outage and should be able to send and receive new messages.

IMAP access is not yet widely available and we are actively working to restore access.

Thank you for your continued patience throughout this process.