Hacked!

KristenAnn711
KristenAnn711 Posts: 783
edited September 2024 in Chit-Chat
My e-mail got hacked!!! How did this happen?? What can I do? I changed my password just now.

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  • Amandac6772
    Amandac6772 Posts: 1,311 Member
    My yahoo account got hacked on Thursday! I can't imagine why anyone would want to. I use that account for MFP messages and one girfriend emails me on it.
  • KristenAnn711
    KristenAnn711 Posts: 783
    I don't really send out e-mails, just get mostly crap anyway. I changed all my passwords on my sites, and nothing else seems ot have been touched. I guess it's just some kind of phishing thing. I hope no one "I " sent it to clicks the link! I sent out a beware e-mail too.
  • rebeccawible
    rebeccawible Posts: 87
    my yahoo got hacked too not long ago! it was sending viagra advertizements to all of my friends including my grandmother! :explode: and now i can't delete it because yahoo says theres a child accountconnected to it. i had my daughter connected to my account for security reasons on her part. but even after deleting her account it still says a child account is attatched to the account. Yahoo has turned to crap! grrrr :grumble: good luck!!:flowerforyou: hope you can figure it out :huh:
  • binary_jester
    binary_jester Posts: 3,311 Member
    my yahoo got hacked not long ago! it was sending viagra advertizements to all of my friends including my grandmother! :explode: and now i can't delete it because yahoo says theres a child accountconnected to it. i had my daughter connected to my account for security reasons on her part. but even after deleting her account it still says a child account is attatched to the account. Yahoo has turned to crap! grrrr :grumble: good luck!!:flowerforyou: hope you can figure it out :huh:
    So you're the one sending me those ads!
  • rebeccawible
    rebeccawible Posts: 87
    lol soorrrryyyy :embarassed: HAHA :laugh:
  • rebeccawible
    rebeccawible Posts: 87
    have you tried to delete the account and sent a mass email to all your contacts to inform them?
  • KristenAnn711
    KristenAnn711 Posts: 783
    I didn't delete the account, but i did send a mass e-mail. I went back and looked and it only sent to strange e-mails. I only recognized 2 of them.
  • rebeccawible
    rebeccawible Posts: 87
    weird! :huh:
  • robin52077
    robin52077 Posts: 4,383 Member
    Yahoo sucks. I know 5 people who's accounts got screwed and we all use gmail now. The layout is very different but most people like it better once you get used to it! I love gmail personally. The grouping of replies into conversations makes your inbox neater, and the label system is better than the folder system most providers use.
  • MzBug
    MzBug Posts: 2,173 Member
    Hotmail and Yahoo routinely get hacked. I only have one contact on my "spam" mail accounts....my own. When I get an email from myself I know my account got hacked, and I am not sending out spam to any other contacts. I have a word doc that has all my email, street addys, phone numbers etc. on it, and I cut and paste as needed on any "spam" accounts. I have a handfull of contacts on my ISP mail account, the ISP has a filter and anti virus, as well as my own firewall and anti virus, so not much gets through there.
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