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Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: Mama Fergie on February 15, 2013, 11:53:47 pm
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My yahoo email account was hacked for the second time on Friday. I have set up a new email account with another email service and now have to notify all my contacts which I will do on monday as we have a very busy weekend. . Went into my yahoo this morning to check new mail only to discover that it has now been hacked again!!!! On top of all of this my apple account was also hacked while DH and I were away. Took almost 3 hours on the phone to apple to sort it out when we arrived home. All very time consuming and frustrating. I have once again changed all of my passwords and will delete my yahoo account once I have saved important documents. hopefully my forum account doesn't get hacked again. >:(
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Oh no MF! :o :(
How frustrating for you! Hope you have a lovely weekend :)
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You seem to be dogged with bad luck MF. What exactly happens when you are hacked?
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Oh no mf... Hope you get it sorted out :(
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You can't access your account Judy as the hacker changes the password. I have no idea how they do it but that's 3 times now with yahoo. The first time it happened they also deleted my forum account. Gert advised me to ditch yahoo and I should have taken her advice. It's jus annoying as I have lots of business stuff on yahoo and loads of contacts. I had my yahoo account for at least 10 years with no problems at all until 3 or 4 months ago :(
Thanks kt2 it's my mums 80th today. Big family picnic for her tomorrow in Kings Park so lots of cooking here this morning. My family and my 2 brothers families 34 of us in total. Hopefully it won't be too hot ;D
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Mama Fergie, i have bigpond accounts backed up into my Gmail accounts.
plus my own domain email account.
I should buy another domain too.
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Thanks Robyn I really must do something to prevent this happening again as its so much work now having to search through my yahoo before I delete it . Too much of a coincidence that yahoo has been hacked 3 times, forum deleted and apple hacked.
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Good luck with that MF, I'd hate to have that problem.
What a large family you have - hope Mum has a happy 80th and enjoys herself with the family at the park.
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Thanks JD I am sure she will enjoy it. :)
Family will be even bigger once my 2 brothers children start producing. So far none are married and no babies yet.
It's fantastic when we all get together and Kings Park is lovely.
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Yes it is, I did a bus tour through the park 9 years ago - it has to be the biggest park I have ever seen ;D
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Oh MF that is terrible. Hoping you can get to the bottom of this. Have you checked your computer for viruses or trackers???
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Sorry to hear of your problem again MF, hoping you can get it all sorted out soon.
Hope you have a lovely day with your Mum for her birthday. :)
Marie
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MF, so sorry to hear that you're having email hacking issues. What a time consuming nuisance!
Obbie, how do you back up your bigpond account into your gmail account? I have both.
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Thanks Marie. :). I have been cooking all morning for the picnic tomorrow. Making CP's mums pineapple cheesecake slice at the moment then taking mum out for a glass of bubbly.
This email/apple/forum hacking is driving me nuts MJ and such a waste of my time but I don't know how to prevent it happening again >:(
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It does sound like you have tracking virus or qomething on your computer.. Have you had someone Check it out?? Changing passwords sometimes doesnt make any diff..Surely you have someone in your circle who could Check it out for you??
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Had our company IT guy here Thursday afternoon and it was while he was here that I noticed something was wrong. He was setting up my iPhone 5 and it wouldn't accept my password. Unfortunately as he had inserted my password 3 times I was then locked out of yahoo mail for 12 hours. Our IT guy checked and updated our two PC's and no virus found. He was pretty certain i had been havked but I didn't know for sure until Friday morning when yahoo let me back in. I changed my password after answering the secret questions and then this morning it wouldn't accept my password again. I checked my settings on phone & iPad and the password only had 8 digits whereas mine had 10 plus numbers ???. Sooooooo frustrating Frozzie :(
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Umm you may need another it guy?? Im lucky my brother is quite good at sorting that stuff out..as is dh..
An it Guy should be able to pick up there is a prob before putting in a password 3 times.. Sounds a bit odd to me..
I CAN understand the frustration
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MF I had a very suspicious email link from a person out your way the other day who has a yahoo account. I didn't open the link, fortunately.
She has been hacked into as well.
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It's crazy Cookie and driving me round the bend. You were wise not to open it.
Don't know why this has happened to me so frequently. ???
Frozzie our IT guy is really good and looks after all our business computer systems, laptops,tablets etc. we have a staff in excess of 90 and the two IT guys handle everything really well. He got my password from my husband and thought that it may have needed some upper case and lower case which is why he tried 3 times.He was meant to come to update our wifi before xmas but was very busy as our company has just moved premises so there was a lot of IT work required which is why i was so patient. Wifi great now and my new printer is installed and new programmes on the PC's in my office so now I just need to solve the hacking problem and I will be happy
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MF get a gmail account, and all the spam stays in spam..
Hope it get sorted soon.
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Thanks Robyn I have now opened a gmail and have heard no spam. To be fair to yahoo I didn't receive spam but had a hotmail account about 12 years ago and it was horrendous for spam. That's why I changed to yahoo which has worked really well for me until around 3 months ago when all this rubbish started. ;)
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Hope it gets sorted mf.. Didnt mean any offense just there are alot of it guys who dont have a clue.. It support is fine but sorting out problems is a whole other issue .. Dont assume to know your it Guy though...really hope you get through this whole hacking problem :)
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Frozzie no problem I realize you are trying to help me :)
Have to say this guy is really good otherwise we wouldn't have had him on board for the last 7 years. DH is very particular about whom he employs and seldom gets it wrong and we have been in business for 28 years now.
Hopefully I can sort out my email problem but IT guy said he will help me if I get stuck but I don't really want to do that as he is really busy in the offices at the moment.v
Hope you and DH find work soon and can move on with life. Feel so sad for you both in your current situation :(
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sounds like a right pain mf I only have my BigPond email so can't be of any help but I sure hope you don't have any more drama's technology is too time consuming when problems arise ::)
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So many others in the same situation when you move to oz on a permanent visa mf unless your from the uk its pretty common to wait 4 or 5 mths for work.. Pathétic really..the system is heavily flawed..but anyway thats another issue Certainly doesnt make you more qualified for a job because you come from one country over another..we Will get there soon enough
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Buying your own domain is a good idea Obbie. I would never use yahoo or hotmail.
It is really a time consuming pain in the butt when you get hacked. Changing passwords frequently is good but also a pain in the butt.
Back up and then back up again to another device, PC or Mac. Some use iCloud which is a very handy backup? Whe. you hare finished backing up do it once again for good luck. LOL!
Gert
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Gert, I have 3 domains.
2 for work, and 1 for the kids when they decide they want their own. :)