Interesting that using the recovery key stopped the issue for you, but does not seem to do its job now.
From the article "Ken said he enabled a recovery key for his account as instructed, but that it hasn’t stopped the unbidden system alerts from appearing on all of his devices every few days.
KrebsOnSecurity tested Ken’s experience, and can confirm that enabling a recovery key does nothing to stop a password reset prompt from being sent to associated Apple devices. "
Should we not simply be following the rules of the language spoken at the time? When speaking English, use the English convention. When speaking Japanese, use the Japanese convention etc.
So many commenters talk about the fact that they never visit Yahoo.com, without realizing that the link shared by OP is from techcrunch.com, a Yahoo.com property. Yahoo is a lot more than services hosted on yahoo.com