Yahoo and AOL Experience Widespread Outage Causing Access Issues

On January 21, Yahoo and AOL experienced a widespread outage affecting millions of users across the United States. Starting around 9:00-9:30 a.m. Eastern Time, users reported login failures and 'Too Many Requests' error messages on Yahoo Mail, AOL Mail, and Yahoo Finance. Yahoo acknowledged the issue, stating their teams were investigating. The error indicates server overload or rate-limiting due to high traffic. Users were advised to try troubleshooting steps while awaiting service restoration.