Security. What am I doing wrong?

McCracken

McCracken

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Seems within the last 6 months my Yahoo! account has been hacked twice. I use "strong" passwords that consist of upper and lowercase, numbers, etc. My gmail accounts are fine. What am I doing, besides looking at the ladies, wrong? I use my smarty phone a lot but I have an antivirus program on there and it always comes out clean. Somebody educate me.
 
get a new yahoo account?


if you've got to view the prons there are some sites that aren't quite as questionable (not sure if I should mention on open forumz...)
 
Are they changing your password?

Using the password recovery options is typically a whole lot easier than figuring out what the password was to begin with.

Is the password to your Yahoo account used anywhere else?
 
believe it or not I really don't look at the lady sites. I don't have the time :( but to answer your question Shawn, no I only used it there and no it hasn't been changed byt the hacker. I even set up that "security seal" verification BS.
 
Stop using Yahoo. That's email for girls. Stick to the Gmail account.
 
McCracken said:
but but but it was my first.... no seriously. I've had the same email account for over a decade.
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Feel your pain.
I got my Yahoo account in '97. This was before spamming even existed... at the time it seemed perfectly reasonable to use an account that was my first initial, last initial, and 5 random numbers... which was teh same as my ASU email addy at the time....
... now my friends don't get my emails b/c they get auto-filtered.
Even Yahoo will send things that are replies to MY OWN EMAIL right into my Junk box assuming it is spam.
Doh! o_O
Fawkin' spammers.:flipoff:

Out of sheer principle alone I refuse to give up the address I've had through 3 presidents and the rise and fall of several countries just b/c of dickheads in Nigeria.
 
Same happened to my wife last week, her email account was hacked from an IP address in Hungary, resulting in spam originating from her email, didn't change her password or anything, but her only password recovery email was her old college email that has been deactivated for about 4 years...so it was quite a hassle for yahoo to return control to us. Now I set it up where if she signs on to an unrecognized computer, it must send a code to her phone via text that must be entered so that she can sign in. After it's done once Yahoo will recognize that computer.
 
oscar80 said:
what do you mean by "hacked"? Are they sending spam mail?

Swyped while swerving
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yes. I got a bunch of failure emails that popped up this morning from old contacts I had in my list.
 
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