Hacked Email

[SNSUN]

I have an email account of about 7 years standing with Yahoo, which I've just found out has been hacked, as the few contacts I had in my address book have been getting emails from "me" with links to, I assume, dodgy websites.

 

Where do I go from here? Do I abandon the account, or simply change my password?

[saint_stevo]

with yahoo you can check the recent locations you logged in.......worth a look.

 

Had the same a while back and my account had been logged in from columbia and usa!

 

Change the password, make it strong

[skintsaint]

  saint_stevo said:

 

Change the password, make it strong

 

strong isnt a very good password. Try to use a mix of caps locked letters and numbers.

[pedg]

  skintsaint said:

strong isnt a very good password. Try to use a mix of caps locked letters and numbers.

 

Actually there is a good xkcd cartoon about password strength:

 

http://xkcd.com/936/

 

Basically with the computing power now available its easier for hackers to get you password via a brute force attack rather than using dictionaries so you are actually better off having a longer password that is easier to remember than a shorter one with numbers replacing letters etc.