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Post by Claire on Mar 14, 2013 0:11:00 GMT 1
Hi all have been emailing this message to people but I dont have everyones email address in my contact book, and I also may have inadvertantly missed someone out - so thought I'd put it here as well.
I received an email supposedly from a friend with a link in it, then found later that my friend's email account had been hacked into. I don't know if opening the link has made my own email account vulnerable but just in case - if you get an email that says its from me with nothing but a link in it and just the date in the subject line DO NOT OPEN THE LINK! You may also be safer emailing me at one of my other email addresses for the time being until I can investigate the matter further: squirrelbooks@ymail.com or ponymadbooklovers@yahoo.co.uk
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2013 7:46:12 GMT 1
Thanks for the warning Claire.
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Post by Claire on Mar 14, 2013 13:01:19 GMT 1
Hi all, well have been looking into this and apparently a lot of yahoo accounts have been hacked into but it seems that if you change your password straight away (as I did) you should be OK. However once again I would stress not to click on any suspicious looking links in emails even from people you know - as it may not be them sending it and it seems the links are doing the damage. Here is an article on the problem. Tho it says its been fixed but obviously has not! thenextweb.com/insider/2013/01/31/yahoo-mail-users-still-seeing-accounts-hacked-via-xss-exploit-amid-reports-yahoo-failed-to-fix-old-flaw/If anyone has a yahoo account I would recommend ditching it, unfortunately for me I have 3 and some are linked to business so it might not be so easy.
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Post by kunuma on Mar 14, 2013 19:36:38 GMT 1
There seem to be a lot about - one of the local charities I support got one on the website - annoyingly the free AVG didn't alert on a search until after I had clicked on it, then it said oooops - or words to that effect, afterwards it showed up with a virus so I suppose I was the first idiot to click on it and until someone does the warning doesn't get put on. However AVG did manage to do whatever it is that gets done to viruses - so they are still in my good books.
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Post by Claire on Mar 14, 2013 21:39:51 GMT 1
Unfortunately anti virus can stop or isolate virus but cant stop people hacking into email accounts, especially if the programmers have left a virtual back door for them to get in, as it seems Yahoo has done! Emails and accounts are one of the easiest things to hack into which is why you should never put anything in emails such as passwords, bank details, credit card details, etc. Unfortunately some stupid companies send you the password you use to log on in an email.
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