On Monday 26 December 2011 14:50:56 hvw59601 wrote: > T o n g wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 07:47:42 -0600, hvw59601 wrote: > >> Recently one of my Yahoo accts was compromised. Mail was sent all over > >> the place with nonsense, to LDU also. > >> > >> [. . . ] > >> > >> And how is an account compromised? > > > > Looks like it's a growing trend to me. One of my friend was hit a while > > ago as well. Because she is not that tech savvy, I couldn't figure out > > how it actually happened either. Do you have any clue yourself? > > <snip> > It's a seldomly used Yahoo! account. It happened once before also with a > Yahoo! account. AFAIK never with gmail.
I once had a password changed. As far as I could tell, my account had not yet been used when I noticed and reclaimed the account. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201112261514.26763.lisi.re...@gmail.com
