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captain_slinky) wrote2009-02-19 01:25 pm
captain_slinky) wrote2009-02-19 01:25 pm
COMPROMISED!
Logged in to my Yahoo mail account this morning and found a few odd things.
First of all, my Yahoo Mail Notifier plug-in for FireFox said i had no new messages when i actually had about 23.
Secondly, I had about 4 Mailer Daemon Postmaster Failure-To-Deliver messages amongst my spam.
I didn't think much of it at the time. Could have been a malfunction of the Yahoo Mail Notifier (it's happened before) and just your average Spammers trying to make me look at their message with a clever subject line.
But then i got an e-mail from my Cousin wanting to know if I had actually sent this to him because he didn't want to open it if it were a virus or something. Sure enough, I hadn't mailed him in YEARS.
So! Looks like my Yahoo mail has been compromised! Thankfully I haven't used it for storing an address book or anything since about 1998 or so. Password changed, hopefully damage will be minimal.
First of all, my Yahoo Mail Notifier plug-in for FireFox said i had no new messages when i actually had about 23.
Secondly, I had about 4 Mailer Daemon Postmaster Failure-To-Deliver messages amongst my spam.
I didn't think much of it at the time. Could have been a malfunction of the Yahoo Mail Notifier (it's happened before) and just your average Spammers trying to make me look at their message with a clever subject line.
But then i got an e-mail from my Cousin wanting to know if I had actually sent this to him because he didn't want to open it if it were a virus or something. Sure enough, I hadn't mailed him in YEARS.
So! Looks like my Yahoo mail has been compromised! Thankfully I haven't used it for storing an address book or anything since about 1998 or so. Password changed, hopefully damage will be minimal.