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

[Laurence W Brown]

Yahoo mail is well-known for being pretty easy to compromise...

Sent from my 2Pad…

On Jun 18, 2012, at 16:47, Tony Kan <tony.kan at clear.net.nz> wrote:

> 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-----
> From: newtontalk-bounces at newtontalk.net
> [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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