Yahoo To Recycle Username and Protect Your Data.

 Yahoo will on 15th July, start letting people claim the usernames of inactive accounts for the past one year in its bid to ginger people to return to the site and as well make available some sought-after usernames. But with log-ins and password recovery linked to e-mail addresses, it is increasing some security concerns.
Dylan Casey, Yahoo's Senior Director of Consumer platforms says they are working with partners and peers in the space collaboratively on a program that will help them understand if an account has been recycled and potentially has a new owner. He further says, the username recycling isn't going to be just a one - time house cleaning but rather going to be an ongoing process.