I Got Hacked...

[Ron]

... or more specifically, my Yahoo.ca email account. I have never been hacked before so this was a first for me.
I got home from Church last night & was checking my Yahoo.ca email (a secondary email, not my main one) & lo & behold there was a message from the Admin team at Yahoo.
I thought, oh, oh.
The notice said, that they detected suspicious activity on my account & could they check to make sure it was me accessing the account.
There were emails sent--a lot of them.
The IP Address it was sent from was in Thailand!!!
I am not there & I have never been there, so it wasn't me.
The good thing was, I checked my email about a half hour from when it first started happening.
They advised me to immediately change the password--I did.
I checked to see what was being sent out & there was a link,
I tried to click on the link but my security software would not let it.
It just said that it blocked some malicious malware.
I said all that to say this.
Some of you have your emails on there & may have been sent something from me.
That wasn't me.
Sorry!

[Cindy]

Originally Posted by Ron

... or more specifically, my Yahoo.ca email account. I have never been hacked before so this was a first for me.
I got home from Church last night & was checking my Yahoo.ca email (a secondary email, not my main one) & lo & behold there was a message from the Admin team at Yahoo.
I thought, oh, oh.
The notice said, that they detected suspicious activity on my account & could they check to make sure it was me accessing the account.
There were emails sent--a lot of them.
The IP Address it was sent from was in Thailand!!!
I am not there & I have never been there, so it wasn't me.
The good thing was, I checked my email about a half hour from when it first started happening.
They advised me to immediately change the password--I did.
I checked to see what was being sent out & there was a link,
I tried to click on the link but my security software would not let it.
It just said that it blocked some malicious malware.
I said all that to say this.
Some of you have your emails on there & may have been sent something from me.
That wasn't me.
Sorry!

[navygoat1998]

Originally Posted by Cindy

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by Cindy

It was THEM!

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

It was THEM!

You know its the end of Western Civilization when they make a remake of Tron.

[Jermyn Davidson]

My yahoo account was recently hacked as well-- recently as in last week.

[Timmy]

Got an email from my dad once, saying they needed $2,400 wired to them, fast! They were mugged in London! I replied:

Can't do 2450. Will 1000 help?

My "dad" replied:

Hi

thanks for your quick response,a friend have promised to wire us some cash,you can have the 1000 wired to us as soon as possible,don't worry i will def refund it as soon as we get home.

i wait to read from you

Thanks

Next day, I asked them if they got the money. Never heard back. But I think I was too late: my real dad had already canceled his email account.

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa

You know its the end of Western Civilization when they make a remake of Tron.

Nope. Not Tron.

[Godzchild]

I have gotten those type of emails b4....I hit DELETE or SPAM and never bother to even open them. Yahoo will tell you they will never ask you to "check" your account or ask you for your p/w.....neither will Gmail~ I also have an email account from the UK when we lived there and I have never had any issues from that one either.

[Timmy]

Ron, do you have a good password? Post it here, and we'll tell you if it's hard to guess.