cant send or receive; was hacked?

[wmkallio]

hacker from Nigeria sent email to all my contacts asking for money. Now contact list is gone and I cannot send or receive.

[Kittysue]

1 - Change your password ASAP and make sure the alternate address is still yours
2 - Under settings go to Options > Mail Options > POP & Forwarding to make sure your emails are not being forwarded to anyone else's address
3 - Fill out a Mail Restore and Contacts Restore form immediately
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/cl...store.html
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/contact...store.html
4 - If you use your same email address and password as your login details for ANY other website (Facebook, online banking, Ebay, Paypal, Amazon, Craigslist, online dating, Linkedin, Twitter, Instagram, etc) you need to IMMEDIATELY change all of those passwords. Unfortunately 80% of people use the same username and password for every site. Scammers know this and will try every social networking, banking, financial, e-commerce, etc site with your current username/password to try and hack those accounts as well
5 - If your Inbox or folders contained ANY sort of financial information (bank statements, credit card statements, Paypal receipts, etc) you need to immediately contact those financial institutions and put a freeze on your account and get a new account number/name assigned to you. Once the scammers have hacked your account they will go through every email looking for ways to steal your money and identity
6 - If you did have financial information, consider filing a fraud alert with the credit bureaus as you are in danger of identity theft -- read the FTC website http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/id...efend.html
This will prevent them from trying to open a credit card, take out a loan, open a bank account, etc using your name

You didn't get an email recently that looked like it was from Yahoo asking you to verify your account, upgrade your account, that your account was over it's limit, that there was a message pending, etc?? If so this was not from Yahoo. This was a phishing scam by the scammers to hack your account