My locations puts me in three states: California, New York and Pennsylvania. In fact, Yahoo knows quite a bit about my location. I’ve never logged in from outside the US. This obvious login anomaly didn’t set off any alarms? Shouldn’t my security questions have been presented in this scenario? I have never logged in from Romania before. Sure enough at 10:03 AM my account was accessed from Romania.
On a lark, I checked Yahoo’s ‘View your recent login activity’ link. Upon getting home I went about securing my account. The odds are that I will get another one of those emails because I learned just how easy Yahoo makes it for hackers. I’ll shoot off an email the next time I get a hacked email from someone. With the shoe on the other foot, I realized those emails were comforting even though I was well aware of the problem. I figured these people knew they’d been compromised and I didn’t need to respond. The thing is, I’d gotten a number of these same emails lately from other hacked Yahoo accounts. Why? Because they took the time and effort to give me a heads up that I had a problem. So I put the problem on the back burner and proceeded to have a fun family day.īut I did take time to quickly tap out a response to people who replied to the spam coming from my hijacked account. I didn’t want our day at the Zoo ruined, me staring into my phone resetting passwords and figuring out what happened. Here are the two important lessons I learned as a result. We are at a red light on Sloat Boulevard when my phone started to vibrate.īuzz. It happened just before we arrived at the San Francisco Zoo. Here’s the direct link to start using second sign-in verification.) It will require that you add a mobile phone number and verify it via a text message. ( UPDATE 12/13/11: Yahoo has introduced second sign-in verification as an added security measure. Also, make sure to read the comments on this post since there is a tremendous amount of good information there as well.) You should also visit Yahoo! Email Abuse Help and use this process if you are unable to login to your Yahoo! account. ( IMPORTANT: Before I get to my story, if your Yahoo! email has been hacked I recommend that you immediately change your password, update your security questions and ensure your Yahoo! Mobile and Y! Messenger are both up-to-date.
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