Yahoo and Yahoo mail down as users report outages

Yahoo! and Yahoo! Mail both left users frustrated Monday afternoon with outages reported at both ahead of the holiday season.

Outages on spiked shortly after 12:00 p.m. on Monday, according to DownDetector, a site that tracks online interruptions around the world.

Yahoo, headquartered in California, serves around one billion global users everyday, according to the company.

“We are currently aware of technical difficulties affecting mail access for some users,” Yahoo said in a Monday statement. “Our team is actively investigating the cause, and we will provide further updates as they become available. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience.”

A spokesperson for the company did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Independent.

A number of social media users voiced their frustration with the outages on other social media sites, with one writing “I can’t access any of my mail!”

“I'm one of the thousands,” wrote another. “Not happy!”

It’s the latest in a string of internet issues that have disrupted users over the past few weeks. On December 5, Cloudflare briefly went down, taking many popular sites offline, including X, Substack and Canva.

Visitors to a series of sites were met with a “500 internet server error” warning, The Independent previously reported.

Two-and-a-half weeks earlier, much of the internet went down after another technical problem hit Cloudflare - which is a company that hosts a variety of websites.

“Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers,” the company said at the time. “Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available.”

Other notable outages in 2025 include major disruptions to YouTube in October and Whatsapp in February.