Yahoo Account hacked

[etcswjoe]

Someone from Mexico logged into my Yahoo account and sent a bunch of Spam. I don't belive anyone on here is in that address book but wanted to make sure. If you get an e-mail from me with no subject do not open it.

[pmelah]

i hate that when that happens i havent used my yahoo account in about well since befor my accident in Nov. i need to check it as it was hacked to about a year ago changed my password and sent email from another email account to all my yahoo contacts subject line dont open mail from my yahoo acc. its been hacked that worked for most of them acouple did openand was mad at me at first then understood what happened

[SilvrT]

That's unlikely that they "logged into" your account.

 

What is most likely is you have a virus / bot on your own computer that has hacked your email info and is sending it direct from your computer. It's relatively easy to send out emails to a bunch of people using someone else's email addy.

 

Best to run some anti-virus, malware, and spyware checks on your system.

 

Also, in your email, add a new contact. Give it the name of 0000000 (zeros) with an email addy of 000000@nowhere.nz (or similar)

 

viruses and bots that hack your email this way generally will stop on the first email addy that fails delivery and that email addy would be the very first one.

[pmelah]

That's unlikely that they "logged into" your account.

 

What is most likely is you have a virus / bot on your own computer that has hacked your email info and is sending it direct from your computer. It's relatively easy to send out emails to a bunch of people using someone else's email addy.

 

Best to run some anti-virus, malware, and spyware checks on your system.

 

Also, in your email, add a new contact. Give it the name of 0000000 (zeros) with an email addy of 000000@nowhere.nz (or similar)

 

viruses and bots that hack your email this way generally will stop on the first email addy that fails delivery and that email addy would be the very first one.

 

i did not know that and will try that with all 5 of my email accounts as for any virus on my comp not going to happen hard drive crashed 3 weeks ago and had to strt over again including all my fav. and reloading all my microsoft stuff i hate that part

[SilvrT]

i did not know that and will try that with all 5 of my email accounts as for any virus on my comp not going to happen hard drive crashed 3 weeks ago and had to strt over again including all my fav. and reloading all my microsoft stuff i hate that part

 

yup, that is a real PITA.

 

There are a lot of inexpensive programs available that allow a person to "image" their computer. Basically, you boot your computer with either a CD or USB with that software and "burn" an image of your hard drive onto another media such as an external drive.

 

If your system crashes, you can boot it up with that same CD/USB and re-load it from the image. Always back up your data separately somewhere so it doesn't get lost.

 

This way, you can be back up and running with everything you had in a very short time... usually 1/2 to 1 hr.

[SilvrT]

i did not know that and will try that with all 5 of my email accounts as for any virus on my comp not going to happen hard drive crashed 3 weeks ago and had to strt over again including all my fav. and reloading all my microsoft stuff i hate that part

 

I've had one of those "fake" contacts since the late 90's when I first learned about it and from what I understand, it's still valid today. I have never had my email hacked. (maybe just lucky?) ..

[Snaggletooth]

That's unlikely that they "logged into" your account.

 

What is most likely is you have a virus / bot on your own computer that has hacked your email info and is sending it direct from your computer. It's relatively easy to send out emails to a bunch of people using someone else's email addy.

 

Best to run some anti-virus, malware, and spyware checks on your system.

 

Also, in your email, add a new contact. Give it the name of 0000000 (zeros) with an email addy of 000000@nowhere.nz (or similar)

 

viruses and bots that hack your email this way generally will stop on the first email addy that fails delivery and that email addy would be the very first one.

 

 

Thanks for that tip. I'm gonna give that a shot.

[etcswjoe]

That's unlikely that they "logged into" your account.

 

What is most likely is you have a virus / bot on your own computer that has hacked your email info and is sending it direct from your computer. It's relatively easy to send out emails to a bunch of people using someone else's email addy.

 

Best to run some anti-virus, malware, and spyware checks on your system.

 

Also, in your email, add a new contact. Give it the name of 0000000 (zeros) with an email addy of 000000@nowhere.nz (or similar)

 

viruses and bots that hack your email this way generally will stop on the first email addy that fails delivery and that email addy would be the very first one.

 

 

This one was odd, the sent e-mails were in my sent folder. I will try adding the fake contact had never heard that one thanks for the suggestion. I went into my login history and someone had logged into my account from Mexico.

[SilvrT]

This one was odd, the sent e-mails were in my sent folder. I will try adding the fake contact had never heard that one thanks for the suggestion. I went into my login history and someone had logged into my account from Mexico.

 

you might have a weak password then .... google "password generator" ... there are free apps that will generate some pretty secure passwords.

[Flyinfool]

This is quite common.

The hackers just keep hitting your email account with passwords till the account opens, they then use your email account to send out their spam. I have myself as a contact so that I will receive an email when this happens. Having invalid email addys will not slow this particular attack down, they are sending to ALL of your contacts good or bad they dont care. The fake addy will help with some of the malware driven attacks that are monitoring their activity. The good news is that this one did not attack your computer, just your email account. your computer does not even need to be turned on for this to happen.

 

Whats bad is that Yahoo and the other free emails could stop this dead in its tracks if they wanted to. Simply by locking the account for 10 minutes if an incorrect password is entered 3 times. As is, the hackers can have their computer send many thousands of passwords per minute trying to find the one that works. With this simple change they could try 18 passwords per hour, They would never hit it.

[dacheedah]

I was hacked from russia, i immediately logged in and created a very strong password, have to have it written down to remember. Also your passwords should be different on all accounts, easy 4 you is easy 4 them

[motorcycle_1300]

That's unlikely that they "logged into" your account.

 

What is moTst likely is you have a virus / bot on your own computer that has hacked your

 

the same thing happened to me and when you go into account activity you can see the IP and country that logged into your account. the question is how they got the password to log in. that might be some kind of keypress virus on your computer that somehow recorded your password. another possibility is the phishing sites that look like Yahoo.com but have a slightly different url so if you type in the url and get it wrong you get to a place that looks like yahoo, but isn't you try to log on and presto they have your email address as well as password if that is the case set up a secure sign as part of your profile, if you don't see it when you try to log in don't enter the password.

 

Al

[pmelah]

yup, that is a real PITA.

 

There are a lot of inexpensive programs available that allow a person to "image" their computer. Basically, you boot your computer with either a CD or USB with that software and "burn" an image of your hard drive onto another media such as an external drive.

 

If your system crashes, you can boot it up with that same CD/USB and re-load it from the image. Always back up your data separately somewhere so it doesn't get lost.

 

This way, you can be back up and running with everything you had in a very short time... usually 1/2 to 1 hr.

 

i do have one of those clone programs i just didnt load this hard drive content on to my external hard drive :doh:i felt stupid when i tried to load my old info which was XP i could not believe i didnt burn an image of this one o well live and learn i got it done now

[etcswjoe]

i do have one of those clone programs i just didnt load this hard drive content on to my external hard drive :doh:i felt stupid when i tried to load my old info which was XP i could not believe i didnt burn an image of this one o well live and learn i got it done now

 

 

I use Norton Ghost.

[SilvrT]

I use Norton Ghost.

 

What version?

 

 

I used to use Norton Ghost ... used it extensively in my work. Switched to Acronis about 5 years ago. Used to use Symantec products but haven't been too pleased with them so dropped them.

 

I remember the old DOS days ... I didn't go anywhere without a copy of Norton Utilities LOL ... it was a lifesaver back then for my clients.

[etcswjoe]

10 Its old but it works good for XP boxes not too great for 7 I will have to check out Acronis, I know what you mean about Norton Utilities.

[etcswjoe]

I found out how they did it, I got a pop up that said your session has expired I have gotten these before and never paid them any attention because I had indeed been signed out but not this time I was still logged in and getting the pop up so it turns out I gave them my old password pretty as you please. Now I need to figure what script or malware I have that is giving me the fake popup. Norton,Mcafee and Malware Bytes found nothing so I think it my be in my firefox browser itself since I don't get them in IE or Chrome.