My email account has been hacked!

interlcore

I have several email account for different things but the one I mainly use has been hacked! What should I do? I use this account for emailing friends, buying from some websites and surveys.
I got an email at 3.07pm today from myself! Inside the email is a link to I don't know what. Then at 3:07 and 3:08, there's about 20 emails apparently from yahoo saying 'faliure notice', 'unable to deliver to the following addresses' which are nearly everyone I have ever emailed. One of these is another of my own email accounts so I check if anything has been sent and no, nothing there. All of these are saying they're from yahoo but have no yahoo signs.
There is also one email saying 'undelivered mail returned to sender' and inside it explains it could not be sent to one of my friends email addys, has an unknown link and there is an attachment called 'no subject e'. This one email is from @mail2world.com

Spank

Change your password is the first thing to do

interlcore

Spank wrote: »

Change your password is the first thing to do

I have done that. I just called one of my friends whose email addy is in one of these emails and she says that she has received an from my addy and it contains a link.

Can I now log in to my account with the new password?

marleyboy

Its not so much hacked as infected....

http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?locale=en_US&y=PROD_ACCT&page=content&id=SLN2068

Should help you clarify and fix the problem.

My original Yahoo account was hacked, over 10 Years ago, and to this day is still active. My password had been changed so I could no longer use it, even resetting my password would not work as my original active email used for creating a Yahoo account no longer existed.

You know your account is hacked when you can no longer open it.

interlcore

Just checked my recent login activity and at 3:07pm (the time the first of the emails wer sent) was a login into my mail from a browser in Hungary.
If this has happened, could they have read all my emails? Could they have seen where I have been shopping and which survey sites I am registered with? Could they know have my friends' email addys and are they now at risk?

Some passwords to accounts to other accounts and my address where I live are in some of these emails.

interlcore

The sent folder has none of the emails that were apparently sent with my account.

I'm really starting to panic (

interlcore

Scanned avast: 0 infected
Quick scanned Malwarebytes: 0 infected

How could this happen? ( And has the hacker read my emails with my passwords? *(

robmar0se

Are you using yahoo, or BTyahoo? Is yr normal mode of operation via Webmail, or client (outlook, etc)?

Hacking of email accounts is not unusual these days, sounds as though yr address book has been accessed. Not much you can doi about that now, but as suggested change the password, or if very risk adverse, the create new account, and close the old one. Pretty straightforward if using BTyahoo.

Obviously you need to advise your regular contacts of the problem and new account details if necessary,

johnnyboyrebel

It is most likely not a person logging in. I would assume the emails they are sending out are spam such as viagra etc?

These are not sent manually, they are sent via a machine or pc. Its basically a machine that has 'hacked in' so none of your emails will have been noticed by it. You will also not see items in your sent items.

It is only done by spammers as once logged a spammer any email account they open is rejected immediately so they basically hack into yours to send on their behalf.

I regularly get these type of emails from friends, it generally seems to be hotmail addresses.

Report to Yahoo is the best piece of advice as their logs may be showing you as a spammer so if you get in there first and report it your account should remain fine.

I have been researching hacking recently (illegal I know but bloody interesting!) and it is not necessarily a case of a machine 'logging in' to your account so resetting the password may or may not help.

NinkyNonk_2

Hi, this is interlcore. I've been changing emails and passwords to all my accounts that are with the hacked email account and in the process have forgotten my interlcore password. Thus I'm using an old account.

This may be over kill, I don't know, but I'm not taking any chances.

I have no idea what the links and attachment in the emails are. I don't wanna click on them to find out.

I've decided to to never use that email addy ever again (no loss to me).

johnny - so the log in from Hungary is a computer in Hungary? Not someone doing it manually?

johnnyboyrebel

NinkyNonk wrote: »

Hi, this is interlcore. I've been changing emails and passwords to all my accounts that are with the hacked email account and in the process have forgotten my interlcore password. Thus I'm using an old account.

This may be over kill, I don't know, but I'm not taking any chances.

I have no idea what the links and attachment in the emails are. I don't wanna click on them to find out.

I've decided to to never use that email addy ever again (no loss to me).

johnny - so the log in from Hungary is a computer in Hungary? Not someone doing the it manually?

You dont' have to click the links, I was just wondering what the content was. Most likely it would be a one line text thing about getting a bigger .... or just a random link.

I'm not saying it is or it isn't as I can only speculate but generally it is an auto process, manually hacking into an email account nowadays does not give many results to make it worthwhile that is why they all call and try to get remote access to your pc

Defo report it though even if you have no intention of using it again.