e-mail address hijacked

[sundial]

Musta happened while she was standing on her head.

LOL!

[firenze11]

Yikes this is good to know about. My Dad uses a Yahoo account so I'll tell him to be on the lookout for anything strange. And I've now saved my contacts.

[Grits]

It couldn't hurt to change your password if you are on Yahoo. I don't know if that will keep the spammer out for sure, but it's worth a try.

[Kimmyt]

Woah, too weird. This happened to me too, my friend sent me an email saying that a weird email got sent out. Exact same email. And I never open unknown emails or click on links unless I know the sender, so I doubt it happened that way. I'd imagine it's a Yahoo hacker or something. I changed my password to one that's stronger, hopefully everything is ok now.

K.

[yellow]

Luckily, I have this friend that is really good with Excel and she was able to salvage my book for me. I needed to clean out my address book anyway!!!

Somewhere there is an antisocial 15 year old giggling and basking in the glow of his/her power of destruction. As I told MP, this is probably the same kid that will be managing my mutual funds in 20 years.

I plot my revenge...bwa ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaa

Oh, and by the way, my password WAS strong. Just happened to be one that matched the auto generator, I suppose... a strong password is no guarantee!

[VeloVT]

have any of you that have been affected by this gotten any response from Yahoo yet?






by the way, gmail has a much nicer user interface than yahoo. and the best spam filters I have ever seen...google is way cooler and at least a little less evil than yahoo, imho...

[yellow]

have any of you that have been affected by this gotten any response from Yahoo yet?

by the way, gmail has a much nicer user interface and feature set than yahoo. and the best spam filters I have ever seen...

I haven't, but I suspect they've been inundated. Normally Yahoo is pretty good. I'm not about to change my email address. Once every 10 years is enough. Thanks for the info, though.

[cherinyc]

Holy crap - this happened to me a couple days ago. I am glad it wasn't from something I did. I salvaged my contacts from the sent email that was SPAM in the first place, then I got a new email address from Google. I've had the same email address with yahoo for 6 years with no problem, now...I also have a MAC and have never had issues like this before.

I emailed yahoo on Saturday when I noticed the wacky email. I got a response today, saying that they got my email. That's it.

This is HUGE and I can't believe that yahoo has not sent anything out to all the yahoo email subscribers, either alerting or explaining the issue to them.

[SadieKate]

Luckily, I have this friend that is really good with Excel and she was able to salvage my book for me.

Absolutely brilliant friend, I tell you! I worked and worked to write pages and pages of code. My neck was aching. My eyes were crossing when . . . Eureka! I got it!

Highlight cell > data > text to columns

Me fingers are worn to the bone.