Yahoo email hacked?

[T B0NE 10]

My yahoo email sent a spam message to everyone in my contacts and then deleted the contacts. What is up with this and what should I do?

[strawbossisevil]

Get a Gmail account, they are much nicer.

[NeedMoreFans]

Get a Gmail account, they are much nicer.

The same thing happened to my Gmail account last year...it really sucked.

[T B0NE 10]

But how exactly did this happen?

 

Should I change my password?

 

Are other things, my ebay account, etc. at risk?

[adamb100]

You may have a keylogger on your computer that records your keystrokes.

[NeedMoreFans]

From what I read on my Gmail hack was it probably wasn't from my end, rather Google's. It happened to a lot of Gmail users, from what I understand.

 

Out of curiosity, do you have any idea what the body of the e-mail said?

[sgtcluels]

The Gmail attack (as made famous by black hat) was actually a man in the middle attack. Gmail would send the cookie via plain text and not SSL. So someone in the middle, would just take the cookie and use it as their own. They have since changed the way they give you cookies via SSL and should avoid the cookie man in the middle attack.

 

Change you password (duh), update AV and scan, update your spyware thingers and run it.

[T B0NE 10]

It happened again......same body..

 

 

hi:

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[nate82]

First update your AV, spyware, and any other online security programs you may have then go into your account change the password, and check to see what other e-mail's maybe attached to your account and if there are some delete them.

[T B0NE 10]

It just did it AGAIN

[PeaveyFury]

You ARE changing your password after each of these, right?

[T B0NE 10]

I changed my password again now......along with scanning for viruses

 

AVG found like some warnings, I assume it then puts them in the vault or whatever. correct?

 

I also contacted yahoo....

[bullox]

I would use a different computer to change the password. If you are infected with a keylogger, it will just keep grabbing your new password every time you change it.

[T B0NE 10]

And again it happened......even after I changed the password.

 

I'm making a gmail account right now

[NeedMoreFans]

Your body was very similar to the one that hit Gmail last spring. I know it sent it twice from mine, but the first time it sent to the first half of my contacts and the second half the second time. After I changed my password, it didn't happen again. It's eerily similar to the Gmail hack...which is now fixed.

[sgtcluels]

If you have a keylogger/trojan/virus you are just going to have it happen again on gmail.

[T B0NE 10]

I've switched to gmail now.....

 

But its still happening on my yahoo account.

 

Now everything I receive, it then replies to that address with spam.

[PeaveyFury]

I've switched to gmail now.....

 

But its still happening on my yahoo account.

 

Now everything I receive, it then replies to that address with spam.

 

You're completely changing your password to something different everytime, right? IE, Not just switching from like 'brewers' to 'brewers1' or something like that?

[mothershipconnection]

No more clicking on nude women (I know you're in high school T BONE), that should keep the spyware away.

[sgtcluels]

I think MSC should be official tech support.

 

Ohh or get a mac http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

[GoudaBrew]

T Bone -

 

Did you get this resolved? Or did you have to totally cancel your Yahoo email? I ask because a similar thing just happened to my girlfriend. I'm a little concerned because of this conficker worm going around.

[gobrew23]

But how exactly did this happen?

 

Should I change my password?

 

Are other things, my ebay account, etc. at risk?

I would definitely change your password for every account you have. About one year ago my email account was hacked into. Two days later $360 was withdrawn from my paypal account that I was using the same password for.

[T B0NE 10]

I switched to gmail after this.....

 

I still check my yahoo email every once and a while and when I was there I messed around with the settings a bit and I noticed in the vacation message it had the message posted and set to send to everyone in your inbox. So definitely check that out. After I changed that I haven't had a problem with it but I'm liking Gmail alot more to ever switch back.

[sbrylski]

Happened to me two days ago on Yahoo. When I changed my password, Yahoo gave me a message saying to make sure I update [the spam company] of my password change or else they won't have access to my account to view, override data, or send emails with my address.

 

I'll get right on that, Yahoo.

 

I also changed my bank and paypal passwords. They weren't identical, but similar.

[T B0NE 10]

Did you check your vacation message sbrlski06?

 

Yeah I got one of your hacked spam emails...