Hotmail Hacked?

This seems to be a plague right now. Both my and my daughters Yahoo E-mail accounts were hacked in the laast few days. I just deleted mine ans did my daughter. She switched to Gmail, I use my normal ISP account. I used my Yahoo account for online registrations. Beginning to look like a really good idea. I think I'll setup another one for the same purpose.

There are a few things to check. Are there actually just fake messages? - Who is the email actually from? Can you click on the sender to get more details? - Has the email actually been sent from your mailbox? Check sent items and deleted items. If its not there then it's very likely it's just a fake message and nobody has actually accessed your email. - Change your password to, make sure it's strong. - Are you infected? Has somebody remotely accessed emails? Let us know what you find out.

Also just to add, I know there is malware out there which has the ability to send emails to all of your contacts telling them to visit sites to spread the infection. I would recommend getting your system checked here for free as it could be an infection.

Also just to add, I know there is malware out there which has the ability to send emails to all of your contacts telling them to visit sites to spread the infection. I would recommend getting your system checked here for free as it could be an infection.

Change your password before the hijacker changes your secret ID questions and locks you out completely.
That may be enough, but I wouldn't delay further investigation of possible Malware on your machine.

Particularly if several of the addresses in your address book have received the errant email.
Head on over to our Virus, Spyware & Malware Removal

My mistake was uploading all my E-mail contacts to the Yahoo account. I won't do that again.

UPDATE:
I logged in for the fist time today & was greeted with this message/page (Please See Below).
Is someone or something still trying to hack my account?
📎Hack01.jpg

Absolutely. Good that you changed your password.

You and a million other people. This goes on all the time, especially once they thought they had one to use. If it continues, the best thing to do is delete the account and create a new one with a different name. That's what I did with my Yahoo E-mail account.

Manicd, This type of exploit is related to "someone else" capturing your password. The "source" could be: – local (someone looking over your shoulder when you logged in) (a "friend" whom you allowed to use your machine) – Someone locally (a neighbor, etc. or someone war-driving) gained access to your machine via wireless broadcast hack of your router – Malware infection… keylogger captured your password and sent it to someone wishing to exploit it – a remote exploit at a site where you are a member or where you save data remotely (someone hacked the site data base) ________________________________________ Regardless of the "source", you have discovered that "someone" has been able to gain access to your Windows Live ID related to hotmail.com. You should change "all" of your local and online passwords. You should be sure that you do not use the same password for more than one login location. You should confirm that your machine is not infected with trojan/keylogger malicious script. You should change the name and password of your Router plus you should change your WPA2 encryption Best Regards