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Title: my yahoo email is hacked !! can I do anything about it ??
Post by: SNAAKE on July 22, 2006, 10:41:47 pm
wow I dunno what to say ??? apprently someone hacked and changed my yahoo email address password(another one I use for my ebay business..not the one here). anyone here has ANY idea on how I might be able to recover my yahoo email password ??

also anyone know which is the safest/hack proof email service ?? I am guessing its differnet if it was paid for and I can just call my ISP and take care of any problems. any help is greatly appricated thanks !
Title: Re: my yahoo email is hacked !! can I do anything about it ??
Post by: SirPeale on July 23, 2006, 12:54:43 am
Not sure you were hacked.  I've been having problems with Yahoo! all day.  Tried logging in a bunch of times, said my PW was invalid.  Then it would try and log in, but just sit there.
Title: Re: my yahoo email is hacked !! can I do anything about it ??
Post by: MaximRecoil on July 23, 2006, 05:05:26 am
Yahoo has a procedure for recovering lost passwords, but of course, it is not perfect.

In order for it to work, you have to have given Yahoo an alternate valid e-mail address when you initially set up your account; in which case, upon your report of a lost password, they will e-mail you a new random password.

If your account was really "hacked", then the person who did it can change your alternate e-mail address in your profile to one of his own, in which case, you won't be able to get that account back.

It is probably just a case of Yahoo having issues though, like Peale said.
Title: Re: my yahoo email is hacked !! can I do anything about it ??
Post by: mrhowell on July 23, 2006, 01:03:02 pm
My advice is stop using yahoo.  Spend the $$$ and register some domain.  Then you will have all the email accounts you want.
Title: Re: my yahoo email is hacked !! can I do anything about it ??
Post by: hnugz on July 23, 2006, 05:48:21 pm
i find gmail to work pretty dang well.  very nice features.
Title: Re: my yahoo email is hacked !! can I do anything about it ??
Post by: SNAAKE on July 24, 2006, 03:50:58 am
Quote from: Peale on July 23, 2006, 12:54:43 am
Not sure you were hacked.  I've been having problems with Yahoo! all day.  Tried logging in a bunch of times, said my PW was invalid.  Then it would try and log in, but just sit there.

uh..you were right..now it works again

Title: Re: my yahoo email is hacked !! can I do anything about it ??
Post by: crashwg on July 24, 2006, 07:32:59 am
Off topic but...  Who's the babe Peale?
Title: Re: my yahoo email is hacked !! can I do anything about it ??
Post by: SirPeale on July 24, 2006, 08:08:39 am
Quote from: crashwg on July 24, 2006, 07:32:59 am
Off topic but...  Who's the babe Peale?

Same as my previous avatar.  Michelle Trachtenberg.
Title: Re: my yahoo email is hacked !! can I do anything about it ??
Post by: NightGod on July 25, 2006, 04:01:10 am
Quote from: Peale on July 24, 2006, 08:08:39 am
Quote from: crashwg on July 24, 2006, 07:32:59 am
Off topic but...  Who's the babe Peale?

Same as my previous avatar.  Michelle Trachtenberg.
Who definately needs to star in more movies, damnit!