He added: "We have a checklist: disable network and email credentials, then forcibly disconnect their connections / sessions.
The data protection authorities also wrote to Yahoo over its massive data breach that exposed the email credentials of 500 million users in 2014, as well as its scanning of customers' incoming emails for specific information provided by US intelligence officials.
Yahoo has faced mounting questions about exactly when it knew about the 2014 cyber-attack that exposed the email credentials of users, a critical issue for the company as it seeks to prevent the breach from affecting a pending takeover of its core business by Verizon.
You give Upscoop your email credentials (including the password) for your AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo email account.
Other blogs are adopting Google's Friend Connect (which lets people login with various email credentials, or even Twitter).
Asking people to give Upscoop their full email credentials to complete the search is going to be a tough sell.
To this end, Inky's "zero setup" process involves a one-time configuration involving the creation of an Inky account and providing your email credentials.
According to Sparrow, the team could have enabled regular push notifications, but that would have meant storing all of its users email credentials on its own servers.
These users should have known better than to type their email credentials into a third party service, so sympathy levels are at a minimum.
Setting up OneReceipt to handle emailed receipts is a breeze — just feed it your email credentials and it'll automatically cull your receipts from your personal correspondence — but users originally had to punch in details from paper receipts by hand.
