Yahoo! mail hacked

Sunny

Sunny

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I've been using Yahoo! for my email for years. This morning, I received this email. I tested it by sending myself a message, which went through fine. I'm pretty sure this is a hoax, maybe designed to get at my passwords, and I am ignoring it. Has anybody else gotten it?

Yahoo! Mail Notification

Dear Member

Your Yahoo! Mail Box has exceeded the storage limit is 1 GB. which is defined by the administrator,you are running at 999.8 gigabytes,You can not send or receive new messages until you re-validate your mailbox.
CONFIRM-NOW to login and renew the mailbox from Yahoo Mail-Team.




Thank You
Yahoo Support System Administrator
 

That's spam/phishing, not hacking. A hacked account is when they've gained access to your account. You can search online for ways to protect your Yahoo account. There are several articles out there these days.
 
I get those emails often from Yahoo and others although they go straight to my spam folder. Just check the email address it is sent from and you can usually figure out if they are fake. I change my email passwords every few month. I still have a Yahoo email but also a Gmail.
 

Yes... Yahoo emails were hacked... Change your password.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/yahoo-email-hack-existential-crisis/

SAN FRANCISCO Yahoo has been struggling for years to keep people coming back to its digital services such as email. That challenge just got more daunting after hackers stole sensitive information from at least 500 million accounts.

The startling breach disclosed Thursday is believed to be the largest to hit a single email provider. The security breakdown risks magnifying Yahoo’s preexisting problems – specifically, that it is losing users, traffic and the advertising revenue that follows both, to rivals such as Google and Facebook.
Some snarky online commentators quipped that the hack would have been far more devastating if people actually still used the company’s services. While there’s some truth to that observation, millions around the world still rely on Yahoo mail and other services, and are now potentially at risk of identity theft
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Sunny said:
I've been using Yahoo! for my email for years. This morning, I received this email. I tested it by sending myself a message, which went through fine. I'm pretty sure this is a hoax, maybe designed to get at my passwords, and I am ignoring it. Has anybody else gotten it?

Yahoo! Mail Notification

Dear Member

Your Yahoo! Mail Box has exceeded the storage limit is 1 GB. which is defined by the administrator,you are running at 999.8 gigabytes,You can not send or receive new messages until you re-validate your mailbox.
CONFIRM-NOW to login and renew the mailbox from Yahoo Mail-Team.




Thank You
Yahoo Support System Administrator
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The link address in the "CONFIRM-NOW" is :

http://akilliklozetkapagi.com/Y!/
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Almost certainly eastern European in origin, which is rife with cracker(criminal hacker) enterprises.
 
Wow, thanks for all the helpful advice! It's so easy to just absentmindedly click on something, opening up a world of problems.
 
Even if you don't read your emails when you attempt to login or do something you'll usually get a message or warning from the provider. Be leery of any email with a link.
 
I don't have a Yahoo! account per se.

I use Yahoo! mail, but it's through my ISP, so I don't think I was hacked.

I haven't been notified anyway.

Should probably change my email password anyway.
 
Every email I get with an attached link ,go's straight into my bin ..if I want to charge any of my account settings for any account ,eBay,phone,PayPal ect I go into their site via my bookmarks ..........never via a link :eewwk::eewwk:
 

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