It would be worth notifying Yahoo of the suspected mischief, but I wouldn't necessarily count on getting a real reply from them... imagine how many people email them saying that someone is using their email... plus if it is someone who sniffed or guessed your password, that really isn't their responsibility when you think about it...
I would change your password, and use the SSL option when signing in from now on... I am sure that Yahoo does log logins in order to comply with legal investigations... but you aren't going to get any IP information without a subpoena or search warrant from a law enforcement agency... If you want secure email, don't use Yahoo or Hotmail or any of the publicly available systems and use PGP, plain and simple... otherwise, you will run a certain risk... you would be better off getting an email account from your ISP, or, if you have the resources, set up your own mail server and domain.. :) thanks, shawn On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 13:50, Williams, Larry wrote: > I think you're mixing issues as well as departments. Certainly their customer >service department has little or nothing to do with the web development department or >the programmers. Personally, I expect Yahoo to contact you in the manner of their >choosing in accordance with the Terms of Service. I believe it is that same document >that states their point of contact for account abuse is [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am fairly >certain that address is also listed in the abuse.net database. > > Best of luck, > Larry > > -----Original Message----- > From: Giri Sandeep > Sent: Saturday April 27, 2002 9:29 AM > To: Williams, Larry > Subject: RE: Yahoo Account Security > > > hi! > How do you expect yahoo to make a contact with someone when they even > haven't time to remove the bugs from the most popular web-Email? > They even don't provide any contact info on the site. > > Thanks. > Sandeep Giri > > On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Williams, Larry wrote: > > > They most likely do maintain a record of connections, but it's just as likely that >you will not get access to that list. You will need to: > > 1) change your password > > 2) notify Yahoo of what you expect > > Include dates and times if you have any, as well as any copies of >emails > > 3) consider alerting your ISP in case your connection was monitored. > > > > Hopefully, Yahoo will open a case and make contact with you. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tony Abedini > > Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 12:43 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Yahoo Account Security > > > > > > I apologize if I post this in the wrong group, but I'm > > suspecting someone has my password to my Yahoo! > > account. > > > > Does anyone know if Yahoo! keeps track of IP addresses > > that log into accounts and if yes, for how long? > > > > I've already contacted Yahoo! and also saw in their > > privacy policy that they keep track of the original IP > > address that the person creates the account. > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > Thanks. > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more > > http://games.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > *************************|<<---/\--->>|*********************************** > Sandeep Giri | > B.E IV Chemical | For finding anything your need two things: > Indian Institute of Technology| 1. Will > Roorkee-247667 | 2. Google > *************************|<<---\/--->>|*********************************** > Url : www.sandeepgiri.com | F-71,Ravindra Bhawan > Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Indian Institute of Technology, > Cc : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Roorkee-247667,India > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- email: pakkit at codepiranha dot org web: http://codepiranha.org/~pakkit pgp key: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp: 8988 6FB6 3CFE FE6D 548E 98FB CCE9 6CA9 98FC 665A
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