Logged into my yahoo email like i do everyday. I log in now and i see this message
Yahoo! Account Security has identified a possible risk to your account.
Dear Pauly,
Your account safety is our top priority.
We have detected some unusual activity on your account and as a result we’ve temporarily locked it for your protection. You may unlock your account immediately by changing your password.
Current Password
New Password
Password Strength
Re-type New Password
What is the security risk to my account?
Can I trust this page
Tips for a strong password
Note this isn’t an email that i received in my inbox. This is the message that is shown on my page when i log into my yahoo email account. I assume this cannot be phishing or anything like that since after i log into yahoo this is what i see immediately?
Thank you.
Here is a link to Yahoo answers about this very question. (I got the message also.) Was your password weak? Mine was kind of weak, so I changed it. One of the answers said that it happens if you log in on several different computers, which I do (work, home, phone, other work.) Seems legit.
Good idea to change your password though.
Here is a page from Yahoo about this message. In my case I did not get a lot of email, so it must be logging in from several places.
I had a weak password and got it too. I changed my password to something stronger and everything is working again (for a very loose standard of “working” because Yahoo mail is crap and cannot be used with email clients, only webmail).
Now that I think about it… it should not matter at all whether the password is weak or strong because they would store a hash which does not show the weakness or strongness of the password.
At any rate, today I was blocked from my several Hotmail and Outlook accounts and also was forced to change my passwords.
I wonder if all this might be related to these services having facilitated information to the authorities in the past and now they want to undo it, or maybe they are just afraid the authorities are able to get in and want to strengthen the protections…
Hey, I just got this today too. Email on iPhone said password was wrong. I thought someone tried to access my account, but looking at the logs, no. Doesn’t seem like a routine security upgrade, maybe Yahoo had an Adobe.
No, Adobe had an Adobe. Yahoo is asking users to change their passwords for all email addresses that appear in the Adobe list.
That’s because Adobe did a particularly poor job of securing the passwords. Many of the poor cleartext passwords are known already, and it’s possible they will all be known in time. And since many people reuse the same or similar passwords on many sites, the bad guys are busily looking for people who reused their Adobe passwords on other sites like Yahoo.
How does Hotmail know I had an Adobe account? I never told Hotmail and I never told Adobe.
Unless “someone” (cough, cough) is keeping track of traffic from the same IP and computer and has related that both are connected by being accessed from the same computer?
Or the email I gave Adobe has been linked to one of my hotmail accounts which in turn has been linked to another one…
I think the emails used on Adobe are publicly available.
But I don’t have an Adobe account. At least, not for their cloud software. There’s a tool to check if your Adobe account was compromised. I’ll check when I get to a computer.
The same way the bad guys know it: the email addresses, encrypted passwords and password hints for millions of Adobe accounts were leaked to the public. You can check yourself here.
Did you read my post? Did you understand my post? I never told Adobe I had a Hotmail account. I used a different email, not Hotmail. Adobe never had my Hotmail account because I did not give it to them.
Thanks for the link, Tellyworth. I also had to reset my Yahoo password a few days ago. I had no idea that was the issue (Adobe never sent me an email) so it is good to know. I have since reset my Adobe password, although my Yahoo password was thankfully unique.
I misunderstood your post. Does the Lastpass tool find any of your addresses? It’s possible Hotmail is forcing password resets for indirect reasons - failed login attempts or something like that.
I don’t see any reason to think that it would be related to anything the authorities have done. Even assuming Hotmail had revealed the contents of your account to the men in black, your password wouldn’t have factored into it.