Yahoo Email Hacked
I received the following strange email from my wife’s Yahoo email account:
Subject: No Subject
Email Body (don’t visit!!): http://sites.google.com/site/zmyrkfbfsl/a6nj61ijrl
This is an obvious hack as the email was sent to all her Yahoo contacts – and also all her Sent Items were deleted. Quite scary I must say! So I obviously reset her password and changed her password hint questions.
I did a search on the Internet and found that this is not an isolated incident.
It’s getting quite scary how much personal information these web-based email clients like Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and Gmail contain. There is enough information contained in there to easily hijack someone identification. Just too scary!
So I recommend that everyone change their Yahoo password.
5 Responses to “Yahoo Email Hacked”
As the link is a Google Sites address, I emailed Google the details: security@google.com
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Admin Jay Reply:
May 25th, 2010 at 6:58 pm
The site is now disabled:
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Site Disabled
The Google Account of a site owner has been disabled because of a perceived violation of the Terms of Service. The site owner needs to restore their Google Account before this site can be viewed.
http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=40695
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A similar email was sent fron account yesterday with the following link
http://scinordico.net/und9.html
and everything from the sent folder was deleted.
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Rodney Reply:
February 15th, 2011 at 5:02 pm
I just got one of those today….. It looked fishy so insted of opening it, I searched first. I am glad I did.
Thanks
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My Yahoo email account has been hacked into at least nine times in the last six months. I have always been able to log into my account. Unfortunately, someone else is able to do so as well. Every time I change my password to one at least fourteen digits long. One time I changed the password and it was hacked into two days later. Every contact of mine, including me, was sent spam. All I get from Yahoo is a canned response telling me to redo my security questions. What a joke.
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