My email account is being hacked !

bry9n · 10-14-2003, 10:18 AM

My web-based email account being hacked..
all my email being deleted..

Furthermore, the reply-to option has been changed
to somebody else.

Any advise that I can do to prevent this from happen again ?

jonsimons · 10-14-2003, 10:22 AM

are you on hotmail?

samer · 10-14-2003, 11:49 AM

if you are on hotmail try accesing the account by the secret question thingy or contact the hotmail admins if not please post the web based mail provider

Sharpie · 10-14-2003, 01:50 PM

My yahoo account got hacked once. And I couldn't remember the secret question answer. I had to call yahoo to get my email back. It sucked.

Pretend · 10-14-2003, 01:53 PM

That's gotta suck.

I've never had one hacked before thank God.

raciviusdawn · 10-14-2003, 02:02 PM

so what happens when it's hacked?

fishfreek · 10-14-2003, 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by raciviusdawn

so what happens when it's hacked?

People send threatneing letters to all kinds of high up government persons and the secret service hunts you down and makes you wish you lived in a peacful country like IRAQ.

YUPAPA · 10-14-2003, 05:18 PM

How does it feel like when you get hacked? Cos I have never experienced once~

SN3 · 10-14-2003, 05:19 PM

probally very bad

Pretend · 10-14-2003, 05:23 PM

Hm....that's gotta suck.

SN3 · 10-14-2003, 05:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Sesshoumaru-Sama

Hm....that's gotta suck.

yeah

samer · 10-15-2003, 09:49 AM

"My yahoo account got hacked once. And I couldn't remember the secret question answer. I had to call yahoo to get my email back. It sucked."

poor you... ;-)

Sharpie · 10-15-2003, 09:58 AM

Well. It took me a couple minutes of talking to a Yahoo! rep, but I did get it back.

It doesn't feel too good when someone takes your email account. Especially for me, because I did a lot of business through that account.

I also had a very high rating through Yahoo! Pool (which is probably how the hacker found my username).

Luckily, they didn't do anything with my account. When I got it back, all the files were there, all the emails, nothing was sent out, nothing was deleted. I got lucky. (Plus, they didn't do anything with my Yahoo! Pool rating

)

eyelfixit · 10-15-2003, 02:12 PM

Your asking what do I do?

Change your password once you have access. Also you might want to try and pinpoint when exactly you last accessed your account. If you have the same I.P. you can tell the admin's and if they care they might eb able to see who logged in last (and/or compare stats to see who accessed your accoutn last and how so that it can be prevented the next time.)

bry9n · 10-16-2003, 08:07 AM

Thank you for all your response.

By the way, does firewall have any effect in prevent
account being hacked ?

What kind of firewall do you use ?

fishfreek · 10-16-2003, 09:14 AM

A firewall really would not prevent this as your talking about a webmail account that is stored on someone elses network.

A firewall basicly puts up a sort of sheild between your computer and the outside world. You configure the firewall as to what you want to allow in and what you want to block. The basis of a firewall would say that if access to port 80 (web traffic) is allowed than anything is basicly allowed thru port 80 that wants thru.

Hacking is prevented thru a few methods. First if possible never check your web mail from a public access pc like from a library or a web cafe.

Second use a real password and not some kind of dictonary word. For example a bad password would be (swimmingpool) A good password would be (iw2cmwm). One can be figured out much faster than the other.

You say "I cant remember something that hard" well in reality you probably can. For example if you make a scentance or a phrase out of your password its much easier to remember. So if we take our example, iw2cmwm and make a phrase "I Want 2 (to) Check My Web Mail" you will notice the captilized letters are the letters within the password and the number is used to represent the word "to".

If you want to up the level of complexaty of your password toss some uppercase or puncuation marks in like "Iw2cmwm." Now all of a sudden you have made it alot more complex by just making the i a I and adding a . on the end.

The final good practice is to not save your password on any computer including your home system. If IE pops up a box asking if you want to remember the password for future use say NO. Windows should not be consitered secure and thus why would you want something insecure holding your password info.

margretli · 03-22-2004, 04:54 PM

I am wondering how can I recover my email account from Yahoo. It's a free email, and they don't give phone support to free accounts. I really need to know how. I have tried to email them, and tried the online recovering password thingy, but it doesn't work. Any help would be wonderful. Thanks

ash · 03-22-2004, 09:52 PM

I sincerely hope things work out for ya!

My startmail account was hacked a while ago, the bastard who hacked it sent out some sexually inappropriate e-mails to some of my close female friends, and I had a lot of explaining to do.

Got my account back eventually but was really pissed off that someone out there was reading my mail and posing as me.

I HATE stuff like that. Fraud is terrible in my opinion! As is hacking!

jwalsh · 03-22-2004, 11:03 PM

Of course, if you have any important information, at all, you should not use Yahoo, or Hotmail, or anything similar

, or at least back up the important information.

There is no such thing as a "Top Secret" email on a hotmail server. Almost all ISP's provide free email to their customers, use that instead.

Josh

Atom · 03-22-2004, 11:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jwalsh

Of course, if you have any important information, at all, you should not use Yahoo, or Hotmail, or anything similar

, or at least back up the important information.

There is no such thing as a "Top Secret" email on a hotmail server. Almost all ISP's provide free email to their customers, use that instead.

Josh

Yes... that's what I do, use the ISP mail service... and I use it in conjunction with Mailwasher.