Hello,
First, if you did get your account back yet, please see this guide:
Yahoo - How to recover a lost password / How to regain control of a hacked account | Email Questions
After recovering your account please do ALL of the following:
First, if you did get your account back yet, please see this guide:
Yahoo - How to recover a lost password / How to regain control of a hacked account | Email Questions
After recovering your account please do ALL of the following:
- Change your password (how to create a strong password)
- Verify your account and password reset information including alternate email addresses
- Check your forward settings - Make sure any accounts listed belong to you
- Turn on Full Session SSL (As of January 2014 this is defaulted on)
- Turn on 2-step login verification
- Revoke access to Yahoo Mail for computers and devices that you do not recognize or use anymore.
- Check your Yahoo Signatures, make sure any information was created by you.
- Request a contacts restore if your contacts were deleted.
- Run a security scan on your computer with Malwarebytes
- How to set your language back to English - Yahoo compromised account
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