Yahoo email hacked

bobbygrant

Anyone have an email account with yahoo that's been hacked recently. I have a couple and both have been hacked recently to send spam to people I have sent emails to in the past, thought most were undelivered. Their security doesn't seem to be the greatest.

Outkast_IRE

bobbygrant wrote: »

Anyone have an email account with yahoo that's been hacked recently. I have a couple and both have been hacked recently to send spam to people I have sent emails to in the past, thought most were undelivered. Their security doesn't seem to be the greatest.

I would say its more likely that your password is weak or has been comprimised

bobbygrant

I think this seems to be happening fairly regularly with Yahoo mail from what ive seen. I thought my current password would have been ok.. though it was just a name with a 1 at the end.

GarIT

Yahoo hasn't been hacked, if it were it would be all over the news. You have just allowed someone get your password somehow.

advertsfox

Pop your email in the link below, it will tell you if your account was exposed and is vulnerable from the Yahoo leak.

http://labs.sucuri.net/?yahooleak

PS: A name plus a 1 at the end is so very easily bypassed I can't even explain. This site will though, pop in your password here to see how easily it's bypassed.

https://howsecureismypassword.net/

PPS: Mine takes 6 billion years since it's 15 characters. The difference between 9 and 10 characters (with at least 1 uppercase) can be years!

advertsfox

GarIT wrote: »

Yahoo hasn't been hacked, if it were it would be all over the news. You have just allowed someone get your password somehow.

Yahoo had 450,000 accounts and 340,000 passwords leaked in July 2012.

http://blog.sucuri.net/2012/07/analysis-of-yahoo-voice-password-leak-453441-passwords-exposed.html

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bobbygrant wrote: »

Anyone have an email account with yahoo that's been hacked recently. I have a couple and both have been hacked recently to send spam to people I have sent emails to in the past, thought most were undelivered. Their security doesn't seem to be the greatest.

Are they actually sent from your account? It's trivial to send email with any "from" address, doesn't mean they actually came from your account

bobbygrant

This was reported back in March
http://www.channel4.com/news/yahoos-email-system-hacked-by-criminal-spammers

I don't use the yahoo accounts for anything too important, but I must get into the habit of using better passwords!