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  OT: Yahoo hacked Kurt Ullman <kurtullman@yahoo.com> - 2015-03-23 08:54 -0400
    Re: OT: Yahoo hacked claudel@sonic.net (Claude V. Lucas) - 2015-03-23 19:40 +0000
    Re: OT: Yahoo hacked Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2015-03-23 20:53 +0000
      Re: OT: Yahoo hacked Kurt Ullman <kurtullman@yahoo.com> - 2015-03-23 20:00 -0400
        Re: OT: Yahoo hacked Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2015-03-24 14:02 -0400
    Re: OT: Yahoo hacked Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2015-03-24 23:29 -0700

#28331 — OT: Yahoo hacked

I know this isn't exactly the best place for this question, but I 
couldn't find any likely newsgroup and Yahoo is pretty much worthless.
   My sister apparently had her account hacked. She can't get in it and 
apparently someone changed the security questions, unless she forgot who 
her favorite Uncle is. Because she set up the account years ago before 
she had a smartphone, etc., there is no other phone number or email 
account she had to let her know about the changes. She has looked around 
for a number to call and place to email but hasn't been successful.
     Anybody have a suggestion for getting around this and/or contacting 
Yahoo and/or another Usenet group or other forum? 
   Thanks for any help you can give me.
-- 
³Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive,
     but what they conceal is vital.²
                       ‹ Aaron Levenstein

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#28337

In article <85udnV-8uK6RkI3InZ2dnUU7-dWdnZ2d@earthlink.com>,
Kurt Ullman  <kurtullman@yahoo.com> wrote:
>I know this isn't exactly the best place for this question, but I 
>couldn't find any likely newsgroup and Yahoo is pretty much worthless.
>   My sister apparently had her account hacked. She can't get in it and 
>apparently someone changed the security questions, unless she forgot who 
>her favorite Uncle is. Because she set up the account years ago before 
>she had a smartphone, etc., there is no other phone number or email 
>account she had to let her know about the changes. She has looked around 
>for a number to call and place to email but hasn't been successful.
>     Anybody have a suggestion for getting around this and/or contacting 
>Yahoo and/or another Usenet group or other forum? 
>   Thanks for any help you can give me.

Gen up another one. It's not like they're expensive...

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#28338

On 23/03/2015 12:54, Kurt Ullman wrote:
> there is no other phone number or email
> account she had to let her know about the changes. She has looked around
> for a number to call and place to email but hasn't been successful

Looks like this is the place to start:
https://edit.yahoo.com/forgotroot/

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#28343

In article <mepufg$lus$1@speranza.aioe.org>,
 Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> wrote:

> https://edit.yahoo.com/forgotroot/

She tried that. Whoever hacked her changed the secret questions around. 
Either that or she forgot her uncle's name...
-- 
³Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive,
     but what they conceal is vital.²
                       ‹ Aaron Levenstein

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#28353

On 3/23/15 8:00 p, Kurt Ullman wrote:
> In article <mepufg$lus$1@speranza.aioe.org>,
>   Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> wrote:
>
>> https://edit.yahoo.com/forgotroot/
>
> She tried that. Whoever hacked her changed the secret questions around.
> Either that or she forgot her uncle's name...

Unfortunately, Yahoo email is notorious for security flaws and stolen 
accounts (Google for details). I suggest she move her email to Fastmail 
or one of the other reputable email service providers. There are several 
good alternatives to choose from.

-- 
If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.
      --Red Green

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#28361

In article <85udnV-8uK6RkI3InZ2dnUU7-dWdnZ2d@earthlink.com>,
 Kurt Ullman <kurtullman@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I know this isn't exactly the best place for this question, but I 
> couldn't find any likely newsgroup and Yahoo is pretty much worthless.
>    My sister apparently had her account hacked. She can't get in it and 
> apparently someone changed the security questions, unless she forgot who 
> her favorite Uncle is. Because she set up the account years ago before 
> she had a smartphone, etc., there is no other phone number or email 
> account she had to let her know about the changes. She has looked around 
> for a number to call and place to email but hasn't been successful.
>      Anybody have a suggestion for getting around this and/or contacting 
> Yahoo and/or another Usenet group or other forum? 
>    Thanks for any help you can give me.

Don't use Yahoo.  It's free and Yahoo doesn't care what happens to the 
accounts.

Hijacked and fraud accounts are so frequent that I haven't accepted 
Yahoo mail for years.  That simple set blacklist rules is accurate about 
99.995% of time, which is pretty hard to beat.

-- 
I will not see posts from astraweb, theremailer, dizum, or google
because they host Usenet flooders.

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