On 11/25/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I, too, have had a similar experience with someone stealing my old Yahoo
> account and using it to send spam emails. Is this true ID theft? Can this
> person have access to personal information on me?
That's unlikely. It is extremely easy to send a message that
LOOKS like it came from an address which you do not own, and
more difficult to access someone else's yahoo account.
If you think it actually /was/ sent from your yahoo account,
however, I'd suggest contacting yahoo immediately -- especially
if you have personal information associated with the account.
> I've been thinking of writing to my Congressman to report this problem.
> Yahoo obviously isn't safeguarding its users' accounts. Isn't this a
> violation of privacy laws?
Well, first off it isn't "obvious" unless your account was
actually broken into.
As for the laws, I'm not sure; I don't think any current U.S.
federal privacy laws also address security. However, there's
one which recently passed in California (where Yahoo's offices
are) which might apply:
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1351-1400/sb_1386_bill_20020926_chaptered.html
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J.D. Falk self-contained jellyfish don't need perl
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