[Python] CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED failure while trying to fetch data from YFinance API

I have been using this script to fetch minute data from yfinance, which has been working fine until today. Can someone seem to assist me with what may be the issue?

import yfinance as yf
import pandas as pd


def fetch_last_10_days(symbol: str):
try:

stock_data = yf.download(symbol, period="7d", interval="1m")

if stock_data.empty:
raise ValueError(f"Failed to fetch data for {symbol}. The data is empty.")

print(f"Last 10 days of data for {symbol}:")
print(stock_data)

return stock_data

except ValueError as ve:
print(f"ValueError: {ve}")
except Exception as e:
print(f"An unexpected error occurred: {e}")

return None


symbol = 'MSFT'
data = fetch_last_10_days(symbol)

if data is not None:
data.to_csv('sample.csv')
else:
print("No data to save.")


I have tried re-installing the certificates and YFinance library but nothing works. this is what i see on the console:

1 Failed download:
['MSFT']: SSLError(MaxRetryError("HTTPSConnectionPool(host='fc.yahoo.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self signed certificate (_ssl.c:997)')))"))
ValueError: Failed to fetch data for MSFT. The data is empty.
No data to save.
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