My Yahoo email account was compromised last week. (May 11th) I found out a few hours after it happened. It sent an email with a link to a Russian website. Please do not click the link. I'm not sure what it goes to. I contacted the FTC, and they told me that what happened constituted identity theft. They said that anytime someone or something sends an email using your email account without your knowledge or consent, it's considered identity theft which is a felony. They told me to put a fraud alert on my credit report, and to contact Yahoo! and file a police report. I contacted Yahoo! and they told me that it was a virus going around on their system. When I asked the Yahoo! Customer Service Representative whether he thought that I should file a police report, he was totally silent. I have to imagine Yahoo! wouldn't want their reps saying either one or the other.
So the ordeal was trying to say the least. Evidence of the bug's transgressions were slight. Actually the bug attacked my email again two days later. I was pretty upset the second time. I forwarded the bad email to Yahoo! customer service. They sent me the same form email back the second time. It's a bug on their system, blah, blah, blah.
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