marc.hull Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 apparently my yahoo email has been taken over again and I had an unsuccessful shit show of a time trying to get it resolved so if you get an email from Marc.hull@sbcglobal.net from this point on then dump it. It's not mine. I'll set up a G mail account tomorrow and put an end to this nonsense. Forgotten password from 13 years ago + forgotten security questions + not really being a computer guy + Yahoo = I'm fucked. I would delete the account if I could get access but I can't seem to do that. Unless I get a bigger hammer ? Nope. Seriously marc.hull@sbcglobal.net ded. For fucks sake. Hull 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 apparently my yahoo email has been taken over again and I had an unsuccessful shit show of a time trying to get it resolved so if you get an email from Marc.hull@sbcglobal.net from this point on then dump it. It's not mine. I'll set up a G mail account tomorrow and put an end to this nonsense. Forgotten password from 13 years ago + forgotten security questions + not really being a computer guy + Yahoo = I'm fucked. I would delete the account if I could get access but I can't seem to do that. Unless I get a bigger hammer ? Nope. Seriously marc.hull@sbcglobal.net ded. For fucks sake. Hull I know your pain. I had an email that was hacked some years back and holy shit, guess who hosted it... YAHOO! The good thing was that I did not use that email address for any of my bills or anything. It was just a email I used for various yahoo groups at the time I was subscribed to. My gmail account has been rock solid since I have had it. (knocking on wood now).... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Yahoo sucks. Time to put it out of its misery... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesD Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Yahoo has been one of the most hacked companies out there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RXB Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Why I do not use Yahoo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Schmitzi Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 I read about that yahoo is at its end now, and will be sold (the rest of it) this year. (to something like halabala.com or so, can´t remember) So the question again will be, will and if, what will happen to the yahoo mailaccounts, groups, a.s.o. #OnePioneerDown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Another company that felt the need to change or fix something that wasn't broken. Their web based interface is pure garbage today, so much so, I refuse to use it. Only use Yahoo! Mail through Apple's mail client and have gotten messages from Yahoo! about how "unsecure" it is, blah blah blah. Have had a couple of accounts since forever and have been happy with them for the most part all this time, but if things continue to go down the path they're heading, guess it'll be time to close them out. A shame! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gentlegamer Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 My nearly 20 year old yahoo account was hacked a few years ago, so I migrated my main email to outlook.net, thankfully I was able to export all the email that I needed. I still have other yahoo email accounts, and received notice of two log in attempts from shady parts of the world, so I had to update my password just in case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Given the massive recent security breaches at Yahoo, I think it's a fair assumption that all the accounts are potentially compromised. The problem is that for those who have had a yahoo email account for many years, it is probably tied up to a lot of businesses as well as contacts, and so changing it will be a major hassle... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 My rocketmail accounts (hosted by Yahoo) have been active for over a decade... My correspondence and contacts in there are a history of a good portion of my life. Guess I should start searching and extracting what I can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew180 Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 When you switch to Gmail, make sure to turn on two-factor authentication. It is not perfect, but way better than just relying on a username and password. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jedimatt42 Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 two-factor can be annoying but I agree it is well worth it! A password I used all over the place for non-essential websites was taken from Sony years ago. Luckily I had two-factor on any place that offered it. And most of the exploitation was stopped cold. There are issues: my bank's two-factor doesn't work with Mint.com. Oh well. I have t-mobile set to block SMS from numbers that may in any remote way charge me money if I responded to them, this often blocks receiving a code as SMS. But you usually have choices with each service, about how that 2nd factor is validated, and SMS is often the easiest, but also, whenever possible, set up alternatives. Many services allow SMS, Google Authenticator, Automated Voice Call, email. Set up a 2nd option for those times when your phone is dead, stolen, or just lost between the couch cushions. Most of this sort of hacking fails to gain financial information. But damn it is as painful as someone breaking a car window just to steal the empty GPS mount. Sorry to hear you are going through this Marc. -M@ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Yahoo also has dual factor when they got hacked the first time I turned that on Sent from my LG-H830 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marc.hull Posted March 29, 2017 Author Share Posted March 29, 2017 So I am having to rebuild my contacts on my new email account. Not cool yahoo. Anyway if you would like for me to have your email plz send me a PM with the info and I'll ping you back . Thx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 I'm not an IT expert, but in the past few days I've had verification requests on three separate email accounts. To top that off I had another notification today that someone accessed my Twitter account from Minnesota (based on the IP #). I've since changed my password. Like I said, I'm no IP expert, so I have to ask, what does this mean? I've also noticed many sites like this one will not allow full https Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marc.hull Posted March 29, 2017 Author Share Posted March 29, 2017 (edited) Doubled up Edited March 29, 2017 by marc.hull Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Doubled up I don't blame you! I'm assuming you mean that you're doubled up laughing? I feel like such an idiot. It was a result of a new piece of software that I installed. One of it's functions (apparently by default) seems to block my location from being displayed. Oh well, live and learn something new. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marc.hull Posted March 30, 2017 Author Share Posted March 30, 2017 I don't blame you! I'm assuming you mean that you're doubled up laughing? I feel like such an idiot. It was a result of a new piece of software that I installed. One of it's functions (apparently by default) seems to block my location from being displayed. Oh well, live and learn something new. I double posted my last post. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda Stardust Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 been using yahoo for years, since 2001. Dont know wggat id do if i lost it. Knock on wood. Subbed to yahoo plus years ago and havent deleted anything in years since they gave me an unlimited inbox. Also no ads tehe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 I've had no problems. I changed my password when Yahoo recommended doing so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo! According to a 2008 article in Computerworld, Yahoo has a 2-petabyte, specially built data warehouse that it uses to analyze the behavior of its half-billion Web visitors per month, processing 24 billion daily events. In contrast, the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) database of all United States taxpayers weighs in at only 150 terabytes. In September 2013 Yahoo's transparency report said the company received 29 thousand requests for information about users from governments in the first six months of 2013. Over 12 thousand of the requests came from the United States. In October 2013, The Washington Post reported that the U.S. National Security Agency intercepted communications between Yahoo's data centers, as part of a program named Muscular. In late January 2014, Yahoo announced on its company blog that it had detected a "coordinated effort" to hack into possibly millions of Yahoo Mail accounts. The company prompted users to reset their passwords, but did not elaborate on the scope of the possible breach, citing an ongoing federal investigation. On September 2016, it was reported that data from at least 500 million Yahoo accounts was stolen in 2014. In October 2016, Reuters reported that in 2015, Yahoo! created a software to search their customers e-mail at the request of NSA or FBI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda Stardust Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 govnmt agencies need to stay the hell out of my inbox... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Schmitzi Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 I'm not an IT expert, but in the past few days I've had verification requests on three separate email accounts. To top that off I had another notification today that someone accessed my Twitter account from Minnesota (based on the IP #). I've since changed my password. Like I said, I'm no IP expert, so I have to ask, what does this mean? I've also noticed many sites like this one will not allow full https Can you see which pages he tries to load (-> maybe via "Learn more" ?) I had this while I was surfing on a https-sites, showing me ads from non-https-sites, without working SSL-certifcate. But ads here on AA ? Never saw that before ! Maybe use the MSERT and the AdwCleaner to get rid of anything. You can change the setting for this messages in IE, (->Extras -> Options ->Security -> (Wanted Zone) -> Adjust Zone -> Common Contents (or so) -> Activate. But I am not sure if this is a good idea.... (But I did it, as TrendMicro says so, for some of its products) On every Zone here, you can switch off the MS SmartScreen-Filter, so you do net tell every page that you surf, to M$ Both settings can be done on all Zones. If you know wht you do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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