[NTLK] (no subject) -hmmm who ate the subject?

Tony Kan tony.kan at clear.net.nz
Mon Jun 18 19:47:23 EDT 2012


My brother's Yahoo account spammed me two days ago.  Looks like someone has
got into Yahoo and is making mayhem.  His has been inactive for a couple of
years now.

Cheers

Tony Kan

Christchurch
New Zealand

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:newtontalk-bounces at newtontalk.net] On Behalf Of Ed Kummel
Sent: Tuesday, 19 June 2012 5:51 a.m.
To: newtontalk at newtontalk.net
Subject: Re: [NTLK] (no subject) -hmmm who ate the subject?

It really is embarrassing...I don't know how they did it...All my passwords
are 16 random character passwords. So someone had to work really hard to get
into my account. 

Either that, or my recently acquired Android phone (about 3 days ago)
acquired some malware that captured my Yahoo login. Yahoo says that someone
logged into my account from Croatia using the web site...Um...I've never
been to Croatia, and isn't Croatia a known hacking haven?
Anyways, I have changed my password to 24 random characters and changed my
questions to outright lies so nobody can guess them!
We'll see...I have not logged into my Yahoo account from my Android phone
yet, and all is still OK. I'm a little gun shy though right now.
[snip]




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