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Report: CIA got access to emails

Internet technology giant Yahoo reportedly built a custom software program last year to scan all users' incoming emails so as to comply with a classified order from US intelligence. In a Reuters report published on Tuesday, sources familiar with the matter told the British media that the US company has searched hundreds of millions of customers' email accounts since last April at the request of the National Security Agency or the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Citing two unnamed former employees, it reported that the company's decision to obey the order prompted at least two officials, including then-chief information security officer Alex Stamos, to leave last year over ethical issues concerning the program.