- Yahoo Account and Password
- Posted by Edward Hyde on December 4th, 2003
My Yahoo account seems to have been recently hacked into and the password
changed. I've had the account since 1999 and can't remember the dob I gave
Yahoo when I opened it and that info is not listed on my profile nor on the
registration e-mail they sent me. Any suggestions as to how I can get back
into my account?
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Edward.
- Posted by Phil on December 4th, 2003
"Edward Hyde" <edward@eh9999.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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a good choice..........
- Posted by Rosco on December 4th, 2003
Phil wrote in 24hoursupport.helpdesk:
from experience helping a friend try to regain control of his account
after his ex hacked it, if you do not have the proper information
that was provided when you first set up the account or the current
secret question, then yahoo will not grant access to the acount.
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- Posted by SwaY-RideR on December 4th, 2003
The same happened to my account that I had since 1998
using some phoney address & date of birth.
I called Yahoo they asked me the DOB which was OK but the address that I can
remember was either Afghanistan OR Zimbabwe 
But they did not gave me secound chance to guess 
So I lost my oldie Yahoo account.
So try to remeber your address and DOB they you got it back!!!
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- Posted by Alasdair Baxter on December 4th, 2003
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 12:41:07 -0000, "SwaY-RideR" <aksdjf0ds@dfdsa.com>
wrote:
Surely the OP (if he is in the UK) could make a formal Subject Access
Request for his personal data held by Yahoo! under Section 7(1) of the
Data Protection Act 1998. He could then use the personal data to get
a new password.
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- Posted by M Mullen on December 5th, 2003
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 03:19:54 -0000, "Edward Hyde" <edward@eh9999.freeserve.co.uk>
wrote:
|> My Yahoo account seems to have been recently hacked into and the password
|> changed. I've had the account since 1999 and can't remember the dob I gave
|> Yahoo when I opened it and that info is not listed on my profile nor on the
|> registration e-mail they sent me. Any suggestions as to how I can get back
|> into my account?
Sounds like you lost it.
Try to hack back into it.
I assume whoever hacked into it, knows you.
This person would want you to know some message, if you ever got back in.
I'd start with a password of fuckyou in different variations
It's basic hacking.
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- Posted by O/Siris on December 5th, 2003
Alasdair Baxter wrote:
Wouldn't Yahoo! deny the request if the OP had used false information? "We
don't have anyone on file who matches that description..."
- Posted by Laurent on December 15th, 2003
Hi, i'm currently experiencing the same issue...
i've already had around 8 emails with Yahoo support without any
success !
i'll update you if by any chance i find a way to get it back but i
really begin to think about creating a new one...
ciao,
Laurent.
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- Posted by Phil on December 15th, 2003
Once again I must ask " why didn't you provide your correct date of birth"?
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- Posted by Alexander Rogge on December 17th, 2003
If other people have that information, it is easy to get into an account
that is supposed to be secured with this "secret" information. It's
funny that passwords for such accounts have to be a certain length and
can't be the same as the user name, but providing basic personal
information, which is available to some privacy-violating spammers now,
disables that password.
- Posted by Phil on December 20th, 2003
I am lost for words!
If stopped by a Police officer, do you give false information to them?
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- Posted by Senti on December 21st, 2003
If the police officer doesn't have any reason to stop you, then you have no
reason to give real info.
On the other hand, if the police officer *does* have a reason to stop you,
then do you really *want* to give the real info... ;-)
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- Posted by Alexander Rogge on December 21st, 2003
The police aren't likely to be breaking into my accounts by misusing my
personal information.
