Son of a bitch! Someone hacked my email.

[CaptainCaveMan]

I am not impressed over here.

I went to check my yahoo email and the password doesn't work. Someone must have hacked into it and changed it. I never fall for the fishing scams and the only emails i get are from people i know, i delete all the rest. I'm pissed to because i have alot of shit in my folders on there and i can't get to them.

[oneBADDz]

have you tried password reset?

[CaptainCaveMan]

have you tried password reset?

Yep, and it doesn't work.

[DisCrete]

capt

there are people like my X who run password crackers for yahoo accounts... and u'd be suprised how easy it is to crack someone's password on yahoo.

anyways, call yahoo, talk to them... they will give your account back.. and don't use a typical password... simple letter groups... numbers... ideally the most secure passwords are the ones that mean absolutely nothing at all... and combine both letters numbers even dashes or undscores that makes it that much harder to crack

basically to give u an idea how easy it is to crack someone's account... despite the crack programs script kiddies use... someone who knows you, and knows personal things about you... can easily guess your secret question, which is required for someone to individually crack your account... however 70% of the script kiddies aren't that smart... and use programs which contain thousands of passwords people would use.. and randomly scan yahoo acounts and tries these passwords.

To avoid this yahoo puts a lock out on their accounts now.. so you get like 3 tries before the account is locked.

in either case you have to call yahoo etc... they will be able to get your e-mail back.

Future advice, "Never give out your e-mail to people u do not trust, which includes any type of business or company."
2ndly always use more than 1 e-mail account... 1 private and 1 spam e-mail

the private use for personal, business or family, while the other use for spams, i.e. websites you sign up with... or people u don't know.. or companies whom u feel will spam you advertisements... etc.

hope this helps

[CaptainCaveMan]

capt

there are people like my X who run password crackers for yahoo accounts... and u'd be suprised how easy it is to crack someone's password on yahoo.

anyways, call yahoo, talk to them... they will give your account back.. and don't use a typical password... simple letter groups... numbers... ideally the most secure passwords are the ones that mean absolutely nothing at all... and combine both letters numbers even dashes or undscores that makes it that much harder to crack

basically to give u an idea how easy it is to crack someone's account... despite the crack programs script kiddies use... someone who knows you, and knows personal things about you... can easily guess your secret question, which is required for someone to individually crack your account... however 70% of the script kiddies aren't that smart... and use programs which contain thousands of passwords people would use.. and randomly scan yahoo acounts and tries these passwords.

To avoid this yahoo puts a lock out on their accounts now.. so you get like 3 tries before the account is locked.

in either case you have to call yahoo etc... they will be able to get your e-mail back.

Future advice, "Never give out your e-mail to people u do not trust, which includes any type of business or company."
2ndly always use more than 1 e-mail account... 1 private and 1 spam e-mail

the private use for personal, business or family, while the other use for spams, i.e. websites you sign up with... or people u don't know.. or companies whom u feel will spam you advertisements... etc.

hope this helps

I do those things on my email. I'm talking to yahoo via email right now. They are asking me shit like "What is your secret question and answer" and i don't know that shit. I got that email 5 or 6 years ago.

[DisCrete]

if you can't answer that question.. they can't give u the account back

however it's entirely possible someone changed it so you could not get it back

if that's the case

basically umm

your screw'd.

if you want some advice... for future reference tho... don't use yahoo, hotmail, AOL, or any gimp'd hybrid e-mail provider like that... it's the smaller ones that people don't know about that tend to be the most secure

Mine for example is runbox.com I pay for it yes.. but with good reason

I get 10GB of e-mail space.. That's my person e-mail, I also have a hotmail account.. which I use for my porn sites that I sign up with

but i only give out my private, to family, or if it has to do with my job... never once do I use it to sign up with any affliation or give it to people I do not know