Yahoo account hacked? advice please

Tixy

Probably wasn't the strongest password - its a very old one and wasn't very complex. Luckily don't use the same password for anything else.

Now changed to a very complex one (so much so I've had to write it down temporarily!)

WhiteChristmas

This looks more like a case of spoofing your email address than hacking your account to me.

Hacking bots don't usually worry about tidying up the sent mail folder after themselves.

mancitychick

Have to say I agree with withechristmas ^^^

Tixy

Thanks for the info Node, very helpful.

White Christmas - if it was a case of spoofing surely I wouldn't have received the mailer daemon reports? Though I see what you mean about a bot not deleting the sent items.

WhiteChristmas

As far as the recipient is concerned, any mail from a spoofed address originates from that address, so you get undeliverable notifications and the occasional "**** off you spamming ******" reply.

It usually only lasts for a couple of weeks. If you're getting a lot of undeliverable messages, you can usually set up a rule based on the title to shove them straight in the trash.

It's not your fault; this usually arises when one of your contacts gets a worm which harvests the addresses in their address book. There's nothing you can do to stop it, I'm afraid.

leanneloves

Happened to a friend and she had a very weak password.

vitamin_joe

I think you might be right, White Christmas.

I think it might have just happened to my main email account. A few days ago, I got an email from an old friend who I hadn't heard from for a while. I clicked on it, and it was just a link, so immediately I'm suspicious. So I checked the people he had sent it to, and recognised a couple of names, so I thought, 'ok', and clicked on it.

I got a pop-up warning about malware, so I just clcked the x, and got rid of the page.

Today, I checked in my spam folder. My email address is in my contacts as 'me' (in case I forget ). Anyway, I seem to have four emails from my email address to my email address offering me a particular sex enhancing drug. I didn't even know that I had any to sell to myself, or indeed that I needed it!

Anyway, I'll be annoyed if my mail account has been spoofed. I just emailed a mate to see if he got any spam off me... I suppose if there's nothing one can do, there's nothing one can do. I'll just be more careful next time.

vitamin_joe

My mate just got back to me- no spam from my email address in either of his accounts. Very odd...

WhiteChristmas

Something like 95% of all spam is filtered out by the email providers at server level these days - can you imagine what it would be like without them??

It's probably worth your while to do a Malwarebytes scan just to make sure you're clean, but I suspect closing down the page was enough to ensure you weren't compromised.

vitamin_joe

Cheers again WhiteChristmas. I did a malware scan, and it found no threats.

Still not sure how I got spam from my own address in my spam folder, but there you go- it'll just have to remain a mystery :-D