Hacking

[PinkOrchid]

 

[RomanHans]

Where's WeirdHarold? He'd probably know.

The answer almost certainly depends on how complex your password is, and how often you've changed it. Yahoo! has something like 5 million user accounts, so there is miniscule chance that any individual account has been compromised at random. If you know someone who would have a reason to hack your account, then I'm sure that there are ways that it can be done. But the easiest is for someone to guess your password.

Feel free to tell me your password and I'll let you know if it's a good one JUST KIDDING!

Roman

 

[Noor]

I would imagine pretty easy depending who you're are dealing with. your password should have both letters and numbers in it to make it harder.

I have had a certain someone go into my hotmail accountant that I use for messenger, but I had an easy password for him to guess and it was a strange form of communication at worse. It didn't feel malicious.

I have several email accounts with no connections between them, I uses variations of my names to register them. I don't have anything really secret for me in there anyway.

I use talkers for secret stuff, there is no record of them even on my computer.

I always find it amusing to let my "hackers" know that I know who they are and where to find them, makes me feel better and them less vicious. It works with stalkers too, removes the element of surprise.

I hope this helps.

 

[Zilla]

Hacking into a yahoo email account is VERY easy. That's all I have to say about that.

 

[MercyMia]

Should I worry when I receive an email from my Yahoo account that I didn't send? (I'm serious.)

 

[ReadyOne]

Should I worry when I receive an email from my Yahoo account that I didn't send? (I'm serious.)

Generally, no.

Spammer have your Yahoo email address. They forge a message appearing to come from you and send it to other addresses on their lists.

Some of those addresses are bad, and the postmaster sends a "could not deliver" message back to the name in the forged header, i.e. yours.

So treat failure notices as more junk mail, unless you recognize that you recently did send a message to the named person.

Did I answer the question you asked?
If not, perhaps you could give some more details...

 

[Semler]

If the person that you suspect is hacking your account, also has access to your pc or one that you checked your mail from, then all he would need is a program that remembers what has been typed on the keyboard. Then, after you leave, he pulls up the program and it will show him what your password is.

 

[Noor]

Should I worry when I receive an email from my Yahoo account that I didn't send? (I'm serious.)

sounds more like a virus, than a hack. using MS windows, Outlook & IE I'll bet

the one that happened to me recently, the guy went into my msn messenger, removed all my contacts except my best friend, whom he has met. It was not a big deal since I used that account mainly for her and him. Then a week later he goes back in, returns all my contacts including 2 of his personas that I had banished at least a month before and adds a new one!

Noor

 

[PinkOrchid]

 

[MercyMia]

Generally, no.

Spammer have your Yahoo email address. They forge a message appearing to come from you and send it to other addresses on their lists.

Some of those addresses are bad, and the postmaster sends a "could not deliver" message back to the name in the forged header, i.e. yours.

So treat failure notices as more junk mail, unless you recognize that you recently did send a message to the named person.

Did I answer the question you asked?
If not, perhaps you could give some more details...

Yes, you did. I *have* been deleting emails from the fake "me" addresses but it worries me that somehow I'll be reported for spamming to the gods of the net and my wrists will be lightly spanked. But thank you. You're saying it's spammers and not hackers.

The bums!

 

[ReadyOne]

noor --

This is a standard MSN service, at no extra cost.

People have complained to be many times that the MSN databases get messd up and often rolled back. Passport (a very closly related service from Micro$oft, also used by MSN for validating users) has had problems too.

Of course, someone could have your password, especially if it's guessable.

 

[Noor]

noor --

This is a standard MSN service, at no extra cost.

People have complained to be many times that the MSN databases get messd up and often rolled back. Passport (a very closly related service from Micro$oft, also used by MSN for validating users) has had problems too.

Of course, someone could have your password, especially if it's guessable.

Despite my deep and unyielding belief that anything is possible with microsloth products, in this case, unfortunately, I can not blame them. I have other outside info. to support my conclusions.

That is a lovely undocumented feature you describe though, ranks right up there will mail and browsers with holes so large you can drive a truck though.

Noor