i’m gonna get those suckers…
I’ve been violated. Not in the fun, sexual kinda way, but in a much more menacingly effective attack.
I’ve had my e-mail password stolen and my Yahoo account hijacked. I have no e-mail access. I cannot access my 10+ years of e-mail addresses. Friends, family, strangers that are great in the sack. Gone! All Gone!
It happened yesterday morning. As I was sipping at my chilled coffee like beverage reading my Yahoo mail, I realized that my Yahoo! Messenger was having difficulties in logging on. I stopped the Messengers attempts and that’s when it happened. My password had been changed on my account. I no longer have access.
HOW? How can somebody gain this information and disrupt my life to such a huge extent. My Yahoo profile has my address, my telephone numbers and all my friend’s and family’s contact addresses. My credit card information is readily available in my in-box (due to some pretty cool items I recently purchased online).
I spent the evening closing accounts, requesting new credit/debit cards, changing all my online passwords, trying to contact yahoo.
I’m not sure if I’m more incensed that somebody did this, or that there is no way in hell to actually contact a live person at Yahoo. I spent hours searching for a telephone number and found several (all automated, of course). I called Yahoo travel to request my itinerary for my trip to Phoenix be re-forwarded to my new e-mail and even asked the nice Bangladeshi woman for a number which she happily supplied (a different number for yahoo travel it turned out).
How can a company with the amount of customers, and the amount of personal information and credit details, NOT have public access?
I’m hoping that one of the 6 e-mails I sent to Yahoo will be returned by a live person. so far, the first 5 have been identical, automated responses. I think I’m fucked.