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Yahoo email hacked

  • 30-10-2013 8:56pm
    #1
    bobbygrant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54 ✭✭


    Anyone have an email account with yahoo that's been hacked recently. I have a couple and both have been hacked recently to send spam to people I have sent emails to in the past, thought most were undelivered. Their security doesn't seem to be the greatest.


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  • #2
    Outkast_IRE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,516 ✭✭✭Outkast_IRE


    bobbygrant wrote: »
    Anyone have an email account with yahoo that's been hacked recently. I have a couple and both have been hacked recently to send spam to people I have sent emails to in the past, thought most were undelivered. Their security doesn't seem to be the greatest.

    I would say its more likely that your password is weak or has been comprimised


  • #3
    bobbygrant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54 ✭✭bobbygrant


    I think this seems to be happening fairly regularly with Yahoo mail from what ive seen. I thought my current password would have been ok.. though it was just a name with a 1 at the end.


  • #4
    GarIT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭GarIT


    Yahoo hasn't been hacked, if it were it would be all over the news. You have just allowed someone get your password somehow.


  • #5
    advertsfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭advertsfox


    Pop your email in the link below, it will tell you if your account was exposed and is vulnerable from the Yahoo leak.

    http://labs.sucuri.net/?yahooleak

    PS: A name plus a 1 at the end is so very easily bypassed I can't even explain. This site will though, pop in your password here to see how easily it's bypassed.

    https://howsecureismypassword.net/

    PPS: Mine takes 6 billion years since it's 15 characters. The difference between 9 and 10 characters (with at least 1 uppercase) can be years!


  • #6
    advertsfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭advertsfox


    GarIT wrote: »
    Yahoo hasn't been hacked, if it were it would be all over the news. You have just allowed someone get your password somehow.
    Yahoo had 450,000 accounts and 340,000 passwords leaked in July 2012.

    http://blog.sucuri.net/2012/07/analysis-of-yahoo-voice-password-leak-453441-passwords-exposed.html


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  • #7
    28064212
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭28064212


    bobbygrant wrote: »
    Anyone have an email account with yahoo that's been hacked recently. I have a couple and both have been hacked recently to send spam to people I have sent emails to in the past, thought most were undelivered. Their security doesn't seem to be the greatest.
    Are they actually sent from your account? It's trivial to send email with any "from" address, doesn't mean they actually came from your account

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  • #8
    bobbygrant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54 ✭✭bobbygrant


    This was reported back in March
    http://www.channel4.com/news/yahoos-email-system-hacked-by-criminal-spammers

    I don't use the yahoo accounts for anything too important, but I must get into the habit of using better passwords!


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