My Yahoo email hacked

#Chri5# said:
Where do you find the "recent login" screen in Yahoo?
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Start up Yahoo mail.

Hover over your user icon top right.

Choose account info.

Then under 'Sign in & Security' check recent login activity.

You can also create a 'sign in seal' here too.
 
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RoyMi6 said:
On a positive note it's possible your email hasn't been hacked at all.

Bounces like you're seeing are sent to the "from" address which can be spoofed.

A spammer my just be using your email as a known "safe sender" to help get through spam filters.

However, changing your passwords and taking extra precautions is still a very good idea!

EDIT: Oh no, ignore me - you've got logins from Turkey. Could be failed attempts mind you... might not have actually got in... but not by those descriptions on the activity :)
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i've been getting them for ages on an old email account that I have not put the password or username into for well over 2 years it's just setup in my thunderbird client

I'm convinced they aren't legitimately sent from my account so just ignore them

no viruses or anything either
 
Yes, I had the same. Login from Turkey. So I closed the account and now use Google Mail with two-step verification.
 
estebanrey said:
You've already failed standard computer security if you are using the same password in more than one location anyway.

I have a mental system with various inputs based on the website I'm on, run a simple algorithm in my head and hey presto a unique password for every website and nothing else to remember but the system itself and no password manager.

So for example you could have something like this...

1) First three letters of your username
2) Day and Month of birth backwards
3) First three letters of website in capitals
4) number of letters in website
5) Website extension (.co.uk, .com etc) backwards

So for this site my password would be 'est2002OVE12kuoc'.

BY THE WAY THE ABOVE IS AN EXAMPLE OF A POSSIBLE SYSTEM, MY SYSTEM IS DIFFERENT TO THE ONE I SUGGESTED BEFORE YOU TRY HACKING ME LOL!
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I do something very similar, took a while to 'learn' but its all good now... :)
 
Right, made my mind up as a friend has just checked their yahoo email and they have the Turkish intrusion too, gmail here I come.

This is going to be a lot of work, 10 years on yahoo :(
 
sbi5ar said:
I do something very similar, took a while to 'learn' but its all good now... :)
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Same here for most things, password string with an added start and end specific to the website, standard string had large and small letters numbers and symbols.
Yet some sites I dilike as they allow max of twelve characters, like national lottery webiste, doen't tell you its max twelve, it just trunkates your entry to twelve.
 
There is a lot of talk about passwords, which is ok, but I am pretty sure this isn't the issue here (at least for me).
Someone has found a hole somewhere and you can be sure they will be sharing that info with other *******.
The question now is how far has this gone and can/will yahoo sort it out.
They really need to make a public announcement, this is peoples private information.
 
#Chri5# said:
My O/H had her Yahoo e-mail done this week. I got a couple of random messages from her yesterday. Digging through the SMTP headers lead me to an IP in Vietnam which is flagged by a few honeypots.

Where do you find the "recent login" screen in Yahoo?
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Very similar/identical thing happened to my Mum ... I just investigated and that was from Vietnam too
 
When this happened to my Mum recently (as mentioned above) ... About 1 week before I also downloaded Yahoo mail app for my Android tablet ... Could have been related
 
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