Yahoo account compromised

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Mr Gearchange

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5,892 posts

207 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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Chaps,
It seems I had my yahoo account hacked as everyone in my contact list got spammed with a load of old rubbish - annoying and embarassing as there were a lot of business contacts in there.

I changed my password to something horribly complicated - but it seems like the problem persists.

I keep getting out of office and automated responses to e-mails that I haven't sent. The automated responses don't contain the e-mail which apparently got sent from me - and there is nothing in my sent items.

Any ideas on how I can resolve this - contacting Yahoo to alert them to the issue doesn't seem to be a very easy thing to do.

Thanks

Mr Gearchange

Original Poster:

5,892 posts

207 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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Ok will do - thanks both.

Mr Gearchange

Original Poster:

5,892 posts

207 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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It's not my own business - but its the e-mail account which is linked to my Linkedin account - so invariably business contacts end up with the e-mail.

It's a PITA quite frankly - but is only a very recent thing and have had the account for 10 years+