Yahoo account has been hacked

loulou41

My friends have been received emails from me I did not send. On logging to yahoo, I was asked a security question and then prompted to change my password. Am bit concerned at first as how do I know I am now on a genuine yahoo site. I did the check up and there is my name near the sign out and then https address. Is there anything else I should do, I hope I was not on a rogue yahoo site. Thanks

rmg1

First thing to do is check your sent mail.
If there's nothing in there, it's someone using your email address instead of their own and not a lot you can do about it.

If there are emails in there that you didn't send, I'd change your password from a known-clean computer and run Malwarebytes on your own machine.

battleborn

Yesterday many Yahoo and Aol email accounts were hacked and people in address books were sent infected links.

Warn everyone in your address book not to click on this link and yes change your password.

B33fy

Both my in-laws had their yahoo emails compromised sending out links to their contacts, fortunately the time the emails went out (5am) and the fact they were just a link rang alarm bells. Apparently this has been ongoing at Yahoo for some time and I felt it was time to switch them to gmail, whether this is a good move time will tell

mttylad

Its a common problem, you need to scan your PC, change your Yahoo password and logout & close your browser.

Some helpful links.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9xG8mLkO-w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjCP8RYbv3c
http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?locale=en_US&y=PROD_ACCT&page=content&id=SLN8292
http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page=content&y=PROD_ACCT&locale=en_GB&id=SLN3516&impressions=true

battleborn

dont forget to warn all the people in your address book, if this has happened.

B33fy

This thread
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4598749
has more info, worryingly seems to be due to security weaknesses in Yahoo

PDC

battleborn wrote: »

Yesterday many Yahoo and Aol email accounts were hacked and people in address books were sent infected links.

Warn everyone in your address book not to click on this link and yes change your password.

As stated in the post above Yahoo & BT Yahoo have had this issue ongoing for arround three months now. Don't recall reading any reports of issues with AOL lately though?