Ebay hacked

Security sure is a problem for internet users.

I had a yahoo account for many years. I used a password which I thought was excellent. I no longer use it so I'll tell you what it was. I used upper case & lower case letters as well as numbers. Here was my yahoo password: DianeMA47416

Well on 12/01/2013 someone hacked my yahoo account, got all the email addresses stored in my yahoo address book & started sending out spam using my yahoo email address. Yahoo told me there was nothing I could do but close out that particular account and open a new one. I did as they said but I didn't open a new one. I can't believe someone sat for a week attempting to break my password just so they could use my address. I think Yahoo had a security breach with one of their own employees who has access to thousands of user names & passwords.

By the way after I closed the account (and alerted everyone I know) the emails had stopped. However, just this week the emails have started again. Once again I've alerted everyone. I also contacted yahoo. They say the account is not active and the emails must be 'spoofed'. They told me how I could see the area where they generated from. I did that and saw they are being sent from someone with iphone out in California. I tried to report this to the authorities, but learned they are interested only in matters where money is involved or terroristic threats.
 

I'm lucky so far (knock on wood), haven't been affected by any stores that were hacked like Target, Michael's or Ebay...never have used Ebay for anything.
 
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