The interruption began just before 11 a.m. ET, when Downdetector saw a sharp spike in outage reports for both platforms. By early afternoon, complaints from Yahoo Mail users in the U.S. were approaching 2,000, while AOL Mail logged more than 1,000 reports and rising.

Both companies acknowledged the issue on X, posting identical statements noting that “some users” were experiencing problems and that teams were working to resolve it.