Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have very big problem. Somebody hacked my profile. All my contacts, sent & receiveg mails are deleted. How can I recover this data ?! My address is novinezavicaj@yahoo.com. Also, from that my address somebody sending spam e-mails to people from my address book. Please HELP !!!
Thank You so much in advance !!
Dragisa Radulovic
Categorized | Affiliate Marketing 101
My Private Yahoo Mail Is Hacked?
Posted on November 26, 2012.
Yahoo’s advice is to change your password, but there are several more security settings to change than just your password. This Help page has more information, stated clearly, with several links to clarify the steps.http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page=cont…
1. FIRST, check that the alternate e-mail address/mobile phone number is still yours, under Options, Mail Options, Account Information, but then change the alternate address! (so the hacker will not be notified of the change). Check the ‘Reply To:’ address as well to be sure it is still yours.
Then change both your password AND your secret questions and answers. Make the password a long, strong one with mixed characters! Length = Strength for passwords! Start with a sentence and make substitutions with numbers, symbols and punctuation. Go to “Update password-reset info” to change your Secret Questions and Answers. Make sure they are unchangeable, unique, and easy for you to remember. *** Changing your password also deletes the cookie which apparently inserts that sly trojan address grabber that sends spam to your Contacts list. *** For a Yahoo account, you can change your password at https://edit.yahoo.com/config/change_pw. If you can no longer access your account, you can get a new password at https://edit.yahoo.com/forgotroot/.
See http://strongpasswordgenerator.com/ for more tips on creating a strong password(and what NOT to use)
Usually, this is all you need to do, although mail will still be sent in the name of the old account for a short while – there’s nothing you can do about that. Once spammers have a valid address, they continue to use it, even after the account is closed/deleted!
2. *** If spam mail was sent to any of your contacts, apologize, and notify all your contacts NOT to open short e-mails, especially those with no subject, and definitely not to click any links. Warn them to change their passwords and scan for malware too, just in case. (The limit is 100 addresses per mail, and 200 per hour, but send to far fewer than that in each message, just in case you trigger Yahoo’s spam ‘suspicious activity’ detector.) Set up an alternate ‘alias’ account to use instead. This allows you to use a different address for sending, but still keep all saved mails and contacts and the first address active too for incoming mail. Your friends can trust this new address! There is a choice of address in an arrow in the From: box. Also add a signature to your mail so your friends will be sure the mail is really from you …
3. If the contents of the account were deleted, act NOW! There is only 48 hours for recovery of the mail, and there are no guarantees. (24 hours has a better chance of success) The Restore Help form depends on the mail you use:
Read these Yahoo Help pages first for details. The second reference is steps to take before requesting a ‘Restore’ -do read it!http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/ym… http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?locale=en…
The Restore mail pages depend on the version of mail you use:
Classic Mail: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/cl…
Regular Mail: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/ya…
OR: Click Contact Us on the Help page, and sign in. Click the Yahoo! Mail Restore Help Form and fill it out.
NOTE: That request will delete all e-mails in the Inbox since the ‘Restore’ date, so keep moving these to another folder, forward to another e-mail address, or read and delete.
Check the Spam folder if there is no reply in your Inbox from a Yahoo! Technical Support Agent.
*** A restore returns your account to the time you specify, which means that ALL messages, including instant messages and email messages, received after that time are deleted and cannot be retrieved!
4. If you need to restore your Yahoo! Address Book (Contacts), please fill out the following restoration form and one of the Yahoo! Address Book agents will attempt to restore your Yahoo! Address Book. This is only possible for 10 days but is definitely worth a try.http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/address…
Answers is a Jungle
change your mail password to a stronger password this time, or make new id with stronger password
for stronger password use words,,numbers,,space
in the same password
and the data deleted cannot be recovered
rest is upto u