my mail account was hacked and used?

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I’m sorry you are going through this.

There have been lots of reports about Yahoo Mail being hacked.

Go to: TheNextWeb http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/03/06...incidents/ They report that Yahoo has known about this since January. I guess that wasn't important enough for Yahoo to email us and tell us this fact and what precautions we should take.

I've been using Yahoo Mail for 15 years, but I just left. My wife and I have experienced numerous problems (slow response time or no response when I push SEND) and my daughter got hacked recently. BTW, we're all using different computers.

Yahoo's customer service has been AWFUL of late! Where can you email or chat with a real person? Love for someone to show me that link.

Yahoo FINALLY created a TIPS ABOUT HACKERS AND PHISHING page, with lots of links and info. http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?locale=en...id=SLN8292 Why they didn’t email this link to all users of Yahoo Mail bewilders me. Do Yahoo execs think the hacking on their site is a secret?!

I've surfed the web and researched this problem since my daughter was hacked in early March. I’ve found that Yahoo Mail has been hacked an awful lot this year. Some tech forums say the hackers got in a back door that Yahoo left open. Hackers may also have traced you through Facebook. Changing passwords just on Yahoo may not work. I suggest...

2 THINGS ALL YAHOO MAIL USERS SHOULD DO NOW AS A PRECAUTION:

► Change Your Passwords to Something Complex: Don’t be afraid to write down your passwords and store the slip of paper in a safe place. Your business tells you not to write down your passwords. You need to follow their policy, but not on your computer and your web accounts. Not being able to rely on this helpful crutch of writing down passwords results in many of us using the same password for several accounts and/or using easily hacked passwords. Here’s how to create complex passwords: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2368485,00.asp

► Backup Your Contacts: Based on comments on Yahoo Answers and on other sites many of the folks who’ve had their Yahoo Mail accounts hacked have had their contacts deleted. It behooves you to backup your contacts to a Yahoo CSV file, which can be opened in Excel. A link to the directions is below in SOURCES.

During my search I found this great web posting entitled "WHAT TO DO IF YAHOO EMAIL HAS BEEN HACKED." It's on HubPages.com http://poshbytori.hubpages.com/hub/What-...een-Hacked Check it out. It has lots of good information.

FOR THOSE OF YOU LEAVING YAHOO MAIL, MAKE SURE TO:

• Delete your contacts TWICE. (Directions in SOURCES below.) This will prevent hackers from sending out spam to your Contacts in an inactive account. You'll actually have to delete your Contacts twice. Make sure after you delete them to go to the top folder in Contacts called "Deleted Contacts" and delete them again.

• Delete the mail in your Sent folder, especially if you forwarded mail to your new email address.

• Delete all the mail in your folders

• Finally, delete the items in your Trash folder.

You don’t want to leave any email addresses behind that a robot can find and send out spam after you’re gone.

Good luck to all of you.