Found this news story today, http://www.channel4.com/news/yahoos-email-system-hacked-by-criminal-spammers
So it does sound like Yahoo having problems with hackers, but they don't want to admit it?
Yahoo's Twitter https://twitter.com/YahooCare doesn't seem to contain any useful information (nothing you can't find in under a minute with basic Google search).
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Lot of Yahoo email users are getting "Suspicious activity was detected on your account" message when they try to send email.
I have Yahoo accounts, as well as Google accounts, and I have been seeing that message for two days now.
Some related recent complaints:
- http://wiki.ookla.com/view.php?id=20130324132816AAYXeEg
- http://malaysia.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130323223029AAnHlrW
- http://malaysia.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130325150931AARjHri
- http://malaysia.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130325152048AAEGEDh
- This one is ironic https://plus.google.com/115106448444522478339/posts/QAmaPZ3z996
Funny thing is when I tried to send a report to Yahoo again today, like I did yesterday, the report failed, couldn't be sent. LOL
Pretty sure that isn't because of problems on my machine, I am fully patched, use a long random password, run AV, test router security, etc.
Also there is page from Yahoo email help under Known Issues http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?locale=en_US&page=content&y=PROD_MAIL_ML&id=SLN3406&impressions=true
Makes me think either they have been hacked, again, or they have some significant bug somewhere in their software.
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