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My yahoo email account has been hacked and some of my contacts have been receiving strange emails. How do I stop this from happening? Thanks!
2014-03-22 18:38:51
I also strongly recommend enabling 2-step verification for your Yahoo! account. Follow
this guide
to easily set this up. Instead of just a password, your account will require a code texted to your phone or a code generated by an app. This will keep your account much more secure than just a password.
2014-02-21 17:34:32
Change your password immediately, and it will likely stop immediately.
2014-02-24 15:33:48
For those strange emails,mark them as spam so that next time,they will land directly to spam folder.You can also setup filters to deal with such mails properly.
Filters in Yahoo Mail
2014-02-20 04:06:19
I think Yahoo did a real good job by keep on tracking IP Address to protect users like us. The best thing we can do is to make sure that you - Set up your second sign-in verification or Secret Questions. If you want to keep it toooo easy, just set you Secret Questions and have a complex password having upper case, lower case, number and special chars.
2014-02-21 23:33:47
Thanks Digi , I will try that