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newbellies

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#101518 3-May-2012 06:06
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Some yahoo's have been trying to bust into all of these accounts in the last few days. I can't recall a time when all of them were attempted at the same time.  Now they keep sending fake amazon order cancellations emails, trying to sucker me into clicking their links.

Heads up reminders to be safe and change your passwords if you haven't in the last year.

(perhaps time for me to look into changing associated account emails too. are the savvy people using separate email addresses for each one?)

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  #618734 3-May-2012 09:58
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Was it just phishing mail or was there more to it ?



newbellies

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  #618747 3-May-2012 10:22
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Login attempts, repeated password reset attempts, and phishing.

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