Sign up here. Reset or change your Yahoo password Your Yahoo password gives you access to every Yahoo service you use. Was this article helpful? Yes No. Vacation response - Check to see if any unfamiliar automatic replies have been set up. Default sending address - Confirm the address that pre-populates in the "From" field is right. Blocked addresses - Make sure there aren't addresses blocked that you want to get email from.
Auto-forwarding address - Make sure your email isn't being forwarded to any unfamiliar email addresses. If your account has been compromised If you think your account has been compromised, follow the steps listed below to secure it. Change your password immediately. Check to make sure your recovery options are up-to-date.
Revert your mail settings if they were changed. Ensure you have antivirus software installed and updated. Sign In. Search query. All Videos Images News.
Local Shopping. Anytime Past day Past week Past month. About 53,, search results. Change Your Yahoo Password. Here's the most obvious advice: change your Yahoo password. Change Your Other Passwords. Changing all your passwords ensures that any password that was perviously exposed in a breach won't be used by a hacker to break into other Turn on Two-Factor Authentication.
Beware of Weird Emails. People also ask. Change your password immediately. When recovering your Yahoo account on a computer, you have the option of resetting your password. You should do this in order to avoid future hacking attempts: Click Create a new password on the "Success" page.
Enter a password into both text fields on the "Set a new password" page. What should I do if my Yahoo account has been hacked? Log into your Yahoo account. I moved virtually all of my email activity to Gmail years ago mainly because they were among the first to offer more robust authentication and security measures, such as two-step authentication.
And they continue to innovate in this space. Q: Yahoo said in some cases encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers were stolen. Why is this a big deal? A: Because for years security questions have served as convenient backdoors used by criminals to defraud regular, nice people whose only real crime is that they tend to answer questions honestly.
Even criminals get their accounts hacked via easily-guessed secret questions, as evidenced by this story about the San Francisco transit extortionist who last month had his own account hacked via weak secret questions.
Q: So should I change my secret questions in my Yahoo account? A: Assuming you still can, yes by all means change the answers to the security questions to something only you know. More importantly, if you have used these questions and answers at other sites, please change those answers at the other sites now. A: Yahoo said the attackers had worked out a way to forge cookies, text files that Yahoo places on user computers when they log in.
In addition, a forged cookie could have allowed the attackers to remain logged into the hacked accounts for weeks or indefinitely. Can I delete my account?
A: Yes, you can delete your account.
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