Yahoo users saw a message telling them not to panic: “Our engineers are working quickly to resolve the issue” Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, was also down for a period of outage earlier in the day. North Korea has just announced new sanctions against North Korea in connection with the countrys alleged (but wildly doubted) hacking of Sony, it would be natural for some to jump to the conclusion that cybercriminals are to blame for the Yahoo outage. It can be just a common-or-garden down-to-earth SNAFU that has caused the problem instead, writes Graham Cluley.”]
Source: https://grahamcluley.com/yahoo-search-engine-goes-microsoft-not-north-korea-blame/