Yahoo came up with a plan to deactivate inactive Yahoo! accounts if users hadnt logged into their account in the last 12 months. Yahoos PR team has gone into overdrive as it saw the negative reaction caused by its announcement. Yahoo is also hoping that users might return to their site after ignoring it for years, and rediscover all the wonderful features of Yahoo.com. The plan is to free-up desirable namespace for our users, but it is also not secure enough to protect our users data.”]
Source: https://grahamcluley.com/yahoo-attempts-fails-defend-crazy-email-plan/