I had the EXACT same thing happen to me today. Yahoo account. Same title and message. And it deleted my entire address book. At first I thought I had clicked on some link I shouldn't have... And the interesting thing is this all happened while my account was shut down. I was online but did not have my email open. My dad (my personal computer genius) said someone must have hacked into Yahoo. I will go ahead and change my password too. That'll be a transition, since I've had the same one for 7+ years.
I did a Housecall scan on my computer and it came up with only a few cookies, but nothing wacky. Dad has a pretty stringent firewall set up and does intense, frequent maintenance on the computers; his last maintenance session was just last week. Keep us posted on what Yahoo says happened. My brother also has a Yahoo account, but nothing weird happened to his.
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09-07-2008, 06:27 PM #1
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Me too.
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09-08-2008, 10:17 AM #2
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It just happend to my yahoo account this afternoon.
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09-08-2008, 10:21 AM #3
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Back up or at least copy your address book, just in case!
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09-08-2008, 11:19 AM #4
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Thank you Thank you Thank you for the heads up!!! I am a yahoo'r...nothing yet on mine but I did change my password to a nice strong one! and backed up my address book...
I never open unknown emails...maybe that helps
hope you all get your info back and nothing worse...I am a nobody; nobody is perfect, and therefore I am perfect.
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09-08-2008, 12:20 PM #5
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I just got an email from Yellow to my non-Yahoo email address with this message/link. I deleted it - is that enough?
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09-08-2008, 12:24 PM #6
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Me too! I'll PM Yellow to let her know she should check her computer.
Originally Posted by maillotpois
I hope deleting it is enough! I copied all my addresses just to be safe.
Thanks for the heads up on this one, Ladies!If you can read this, take a pull.
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09-08-2008, 12:27 PM #7
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We already told her.
Sarah
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