雅虎邮箱宕机数小时

Thousands of Yahoo email users have taken to Twitter to complain that the internet company's services have been unavailable for more than six hours.

数千名雅虎电子邮件用户在twitter上抱怨，这家互联网公司的服务已经中断了6个多小时。

Users in Spain, France and Germany were the worst-hit, according to outage tracker website Downdetector.

根据故障跟踪网站Downdetector的数据来看，西班牙、法国和德国的用户受影响最严重。

Yahoo said in a series of tweets that it was working to address the issue.

雅虎在一系列推文中表示，正在努力解决这一问题。

"We understand how difficult this must be for you. We are working especially hard to fix this," Yahoo tweeted on Thursday.

雅虎周四在推特上说：“我们知道这对你来说有多难。我们正特别努力解决这个问题。”

The email outage was trending on Twitter with the hashtag YahooMail. A user tweeted, "Sorry if you have been trying to email me. I'm on yahoo and its breaked."

这次邮件宕机事件在推特上以“YahooMail”为标签流传开来。一位用户在推特上写道:“如果你一直想给我发邮件，我很抱歉。雅虎邮箱爆掉了。”

Yahoo later said "most services" were back online, but customers en masse replied to say they weren't.

雅虎随后表示，“大多数服务”已经恢复，但大批客户回复称——并没有。

"How can you say its working??? Its not working," one person said. "Check again and fix it please."

“你怎么能说已经修好了呢?还是打不开。”一名人士表示。“再检查一下，把它修好好吗?。”

Yahoo, founded in 1995, once ran the most popular email service and was visited by hundreds of millions of users but steadily lost out to Alphabet's Gmail.

雅虎成立于1995年，曾是最受欢迎的电子邮件服务运营商，拥有数亿用户，但逐渐输给了Alphabet的Gmail。

Yahoo's services include email, search engine and a news service. The company had rejected a US$45 billion buyout offer from Microsoft in 2008, only to sell its core business for US$4.48 billion to Verizon Communications in 2017.

雅虎的服务包括电子邮件、搜索引擎和新闻服务。该公司曾在2008年拒绝了微软450亿美元的收购要约，结果在2017年以44.8亿美元的价格将其核心业务出售给了Verizon Communications。

Verizon combined the business with AOL to form a venture called Oath.

Verizon将这一业务与美国在线(aol)合并，成立了一家名为“Oath”的合资企业。