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| Thread ID: 129611 | 2013-03-02 02:13:00 | Yahoo Hack | Woody (710) | PC World Chat |
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| 1330876 | 2013-03-02 02:13:00 | I'm confused about the e-mail hack on Yahoo/Xtra. Perhaps I'm misssing something but why the fuss about having to rernew passwords? I thought a spammer would need only e-mail addresses to fudge a series of false spam messages to recipients purporting to come from me. Why then would Yahoo scrap passwords, requiring clients to renew theirs. What have passwords got to do with it? Sorry, but I wouild appreciate a reply from somebody nore "with it" than I. Thanks |
Woody (710) | ||
| 1330877 | 2013-03-02 09:46:00 | Well, im pretty sure they mean spammers have hacked it various peoples yahoo accounts and sent heaps of spam to others. | stratex5 (16685) | ||
| 1330878 | 2013-03-02 10:42:00 | The hack was a spammed link to a webpage that somehow collected your e-mail address and password if you clicked on it. I think it might have required that you use a web-mail client and have the password saved to work. In any case they hackers got a huge amount of E-mail adresses and passwords and used them to spam the same message to everyone on the contact lists. What else they might do with them who knows, one concern is a lot of people use the same information to log onto a lot more than their e-mail account. It didn't actually infect anyones PC this time around and neither did the E-mails it sent from peoples accounts actually originate on their PCs but rather by logging into their e-mail account remotely via webmail. So that's why the need to change the password, unless you want the hackers to keep it. I've also heard from someone who had their password changed by the hackers before they got around to it so they were locked out of their own account and had to get the ISP to fix it. I think Xtra did the right thing apart from using yahoo in the first place. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1330879 | 2013-03-03 01:03:00 | And I see even Evernote has had similar problems and taken similar blanket actions to resolve it: www.zdnet.com |
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