who do I contact when my yahoo account has been hacked?
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Hi, from what I've been reading .. it doesn't look good. You can check the links below, but from what I read, if someone has hacked your account and changed the p/w yahoo can't do anything about it .. sorry. Probably the only way would be if someone hacked the hacker.
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it sounds as if someone may have hacked into your account to send spam, or you have a virus on your computer that emails itself to everyone in your contacts.\n\nContact Yahoo customer service and find out what they are accusing you of.  If you can get into your account, change the password immediately in case someone hacked your password and do thorough virus scans (more that one) to clear your pc.   If you can prove you were hacked or infected, let Yahoo know with the details.
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notify yahoo and have them help u
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I am afraid that your account has been stolen by so called 'phishing' email.\n\n"Phishing (a play on the word "fishing") is an attempt by fraudsters to get you to reveal your personal or financial information by impersonating legitimate companies. These fraudsters send fake emails or instant messages in the hopes that the recipient will divulge data such as user names and passwords, credit card or bank account numbers, or even Social Security or driver's license numbers. Once they have that information, fraudsters use it to commit identity theft."\n\nFor more information, please check out the links below from Yahoo and see what steps you can do:\n\nhttp://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/spam/spam-27.html\nhttp://help.yahoo.com/help/us/sbiz/abuse/abuse-02.html\n\nBy searching in Y! Answers, I found the following past answer from Scara about how to contact Yahoo.\n\n"Email the yahoo account security department.. they are able to verify the past information on the account... if any changes have been made they are able to see the changed info.. there email address is account-security-help@ cc.yahoo-inc.com when you email them just put your yahoo id in the subject line and in the body of the email just tell them what happened.. They will send you a list of 8 questions.. Just reply to that email.. do not change the subject line.. and answer the questions.. they will be able to verify those questions based on the original registration information and should be able to help you access back into your account."
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depending on who it is with you can email there security dept. and ask them to send it to you. they will ask you your previous email, password and other such info from before the account was changed.
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yahoo also asks you a secret question,  look in forgod password.  they will give you a clue then they will tell you a new one
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If the person was good enough to know the answer of your latest question, he/she must be someone who is close to you, is a friend, or is a relative.\n\nEither what you are doing is a matter of National Interest, and therefore the CIA/FBI/NSA or whatever agency ur country has is trying to get into the account. But lol that wont be the case.\n\nThe person is a friend. See who all have been frequenting your desktop, or trying to be more inquisitive around you. You can mail Yahoo, but i dont think they will be of much help, they can just reset ur account details. But unless u find WHO did it, the attacks wont stop. For a change try a security question, the answer to which ONLY YOU WOULD KNOW!.\n\nor get a new account.
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If you can prove that your account is hacked, contact the police.  They will put you in touch with the appropriate people...
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contact yahoo help immediately,\nchange your password. \nmay be someone is gaming with your account.
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1)  if you know who dunnit then report them to YAHOO!\n2) if you dont know who dunnit but still have access to your account then change the password and dont tell ANYONE \n3) delete this account and make a new one
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If it has been a while since you have logged into that account the Yahoo has probably deleted the account. You may want to try logging in, and then send the old password to your e-mail and see what happens.. If not then I guess that they ID has been deleted and that you will have to get another one.
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use the Yahoo HELP line and ask them to reset your password, they CANNOT tell you what it is, as it is encrypted, they can only reset it for you, then you change it to the one you want.
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ContACT YAHOOS ABUSE DEPT.
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yahoo is screwed up latley and they offer no help thats worth a darn so far.your not alone......
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If you are talking about your Yahoo account then you can just get a new password.  You should contact Yahoo Account Verification. They will verify your personal information that you entered when you opened your account and then issue you a new password. They can be reached by calling 408-349-1572 option 2, option 2.
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Ok first off one of the main reason your account may have been hacked was you where using a easy to crack password. You need to make your passwords more complex for example\n\n8Ol"PGV!wB\n%Gw1446&a3\nEupb#3&1b.\n3ZEA6y0Af+\n$ch1cF3c/2\nI8Ut(UFzQ8\nO3$+Fu3DVj\nOV!*S&7O0X\njG*)bvzN4!\nRtF7O)7jkV\n\nThese passwords would be EXTERMLY hard to crack. I would recommend you use passwords like a example above. This will defintly stop your account from being hacked. Also use different passwords for every websights you go too. This is anoughter way passwords get hacked.
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I can't find anything specifically about hacked accounts. You might try contacting them here and choosing the impersonation category. http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/mail/cgi_abuse\n\nI'm not sure if that would work.