Comments on: Yahoo! Account Compromised

By: rich king

rich king — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 01:38:46 +0000

yo, today i juz kena. i wasnt reached my office yet but my colleague there oredi receive a link sent by me using YM. they feel weird & then they let me know… after a while someone told me that my yahoo account was hijacked coz she face the same incident yesterday… shit… programmers(in fact, i oso a programmer)…. haih…

i had changed my password, donno it works or not…

By: VK

VK — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 08:43:39 +0000

How about never clicking another link, without asking the sender on whether they actually send it to you:)

By: Yow Chuan

Yow Chuan — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 03:34:18 +0000

Thanks Dan for sharing your experience. Yes, that’s exactly what they keep asking me- Secret Answer to the question which I asked myself 7 years ago…

Sigh…this will teach me not to ask stupid questions again…

Yeah, I think there’s only two things I can do now:-

a) boycott Yahoo! and never ever use any of their services from now on

b) register a brand new account, with something like yow_chuan123@yahoo.com (sigh…)

Choice (a) means fighting against a giant internet conglomerate…so I guess I will stick with the latter one.

I am just worried about what these bozos is going to do with my original account.

By: dan

dan — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 01:05:25 +0000

I don’t think Yahoo! could do much since verification of a customer is entirely dependant on the password. If you have a security question, you can use that feature to change the password and reclaim the ID, otherwise it’s gone.

It happened to me as well for my first Yahoo! account and the Yahoo! folk were prompt in their replies and offered consolation but had their hands tied understandably.

Yahoo! may not be perfect but then again, who is? :)

By: Yow Chuan

Yow Chuan — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 16:17:18 +0000

Yeah man…I won’t be able to use all the services I had; the Yahoo! Groups I subscribed to, Yahoo Messengers, Yahoo Mails etc…

And the Security Team at Yahoo! is definitely NOT VERY HELPFUL…I can’t imagine that such a big name on the web do not have proper customer service… sucks…

On the upside, since I haven’t been logging into my Messenger, I find that I have plenty more time to read more books and complete more paperwork.

But still, this is the first time I felt how Yahoo! sucks…BIG time…

By: David

David — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 06:05:36 +0000

Ouch! dude