Yahoo emails problem

dori2o

I woke this morning to find 51 'failure notices' in my YAHOO inbox and some auto replies to emails I am supposed to have sent from my yahoo account. However there were none sent. there are no emails in my sent folder, but I apprently sent 75 emails between 23:22 and 23:29 last night.

Anyone had this before?

I've had no replies to any so far and I have no idea what they say.

I'm concerned as 2 have gone to work and they may be virus's.

I have Avast running on the PC and nothing has come up. I've also done a malware scan and nothing.

Any advice?

rmg1

If they aren't appearing in your sent folder, then it's probably address-spoofing (someone else using your address so they appear to be coming from you).
Not a lot you can do about it unfortunately.
To be on the safe side, I'd change your email password anyway.

ballyblack

Yahoo is terrible for this as recent posts have confirmed

I changed to Gmail

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4474861

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4481111




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heart_free

Happened to me today. Changed my password and alerted Yahoo to the issue. I've had it happen before and Yahoos advice is just that, change your password.

Johnmcl7

A friend's Yahoo account was also hacked last night and sent a lot of spam mail which didn't appear to be address spoofing as the spam mails were sent to all his Yahoo contacts. I had the same happen to my Yahoo account which was definitely not due to a keylogger or similar as I hadn't logged into the account in a long time and it had a unique password. I deleted all the contacts and mail out of it to stop that happening again.

John

mttylad

This is an issue with the Yahoo servers, everyone that has a Yahoo or btinternet based account needs to change their password and to a secure one.

I.E. not the cats name but something 8-30 characters long with upper/lower case letters, numbers and a symbol in.

There is a big problem at the moment where they have been hacked through an exploit (supposedly fixed by now) that's still sending out spam mails from peoples accounts.

I have had several hundred of these spam mails (I do have over 6000+ yahoo contacts).

My password is now 24 characters long and gets all blue and green marks at http://www.passwordmeter.com/ and that will do for me.

alisara

This happened to me today as well. My day off and my boss even calling to alert me! But, I have changed my password etc but have been unable to send messages from the account. I have had to contact yahoo, I hope they sort this out soon.

aerostar

Yahoo! has blamed cross-site scripting security bugs, which it claims to have squashed, for a recent upsurge in webmail account takeovers.

"Lots of Yahoo! Mail accounts were broken into last week by computers all over the world. It seems a botnet was used to do it."

Article here
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/08/yahoo_webmail_hijack_flare_on/

poppy10_2

Chage your password immediately.

ballyblack

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet-security/9918214/BT-investigates-spike-in-Yahoo-email-spamming.html