My gf's yahoo account got spammed. I checked my email this morning and at 12:00am she sent out a mass email that had ed pills and weight loss pill links inside it. Obviously, she isnt the one that sent it, but somehow her account got hacked into.

What are the steps to fix/avoid this? All the info I can find is for reporting spam that she would get, not how to fix a hacked account.

9/12/2010 11:58:23 AM

If she can still login, I would start with changing her password. Then immediately followed by moving her to Gmail.

9/12/2010 12:01:02 PM

I had something similar happen to me - my drafts folder on my junk email account had like 300 drafts for emails with pills in it.

I just changed my password and besides the "you've tried to log in a bazillion times with your old password" messages I'm good.

But the address was what I use to sign up for crap that requires an email, and the pass was 1234 cause I didn't care. No wonder I got hax0red

9/12/2010 2:23:57 PM

Ya, a lot of yahoo accounts Ive noticed have been getting hacked lately.

9/13/2010 2:57:42 PM

Quote :

"Then immediately followed by moving her to Gmail."

9/13/2010 5:06:18 PM

^ someone logged into my gmail account from china over the summer and sent some spam message to all the 700+ contacts in my account.

i always use https, so how did that happen?

9/14/2010 8:14:17 PM

Yeah, I'm not saying it doesn't happen but regardless Gmail >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Yahoo mail in general.

9/14/2010 9:08:08 PM

Agreed

9/14/2010 9:15:15 PM

oh, totally agreed with that...

gmail >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> any web email

9/15/2010 2:28:48 PM

I know one thing. The amount of spam that my ncsu gmail account is getting has skyrocketed... it's getting filtered, but sheesh!

9/15/2010 2:42:52 PM

wtf?

The Google spy: Engineer is sacked for hacking into teenagers' email accounts

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1312294/Google-engineer-sacked-hacking-teenagers-accounts-befriend-them.html

Quote :

"A computer engineer used his privileged status to spy on teenagers' Google email accounts, it has been revealed. David Barksdale, an elite technical engineer, was working for the internet giant in Kirkland, Washington, when he breached the youngsters' privacy. In a series of worrying actions, the 27-year-old spent months looking at four children's Google accounts without their consent, it was claimed by U.S. website Gawker."

9/15/2010 5:44:15 PM