I have not followed this whole thread, so apologies if this has been posted, but I thought people might be interested in having a better understanding of the mechanism by which many Yahoo accounts have been compromised. http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/01/how-yahoo-allowed-hackers-to-hijack-my-neighbors-e-mail-account/ I'm sure plenty of account hijacks are due to phishing victims and stolen databases, but clearly not all. -h On Thu, Feb 20, 2014, at 06:29 PM, Eckstine, Nate wrote: > I would concur. My yahoo account was quickly hacked a few years ago when > I turned my firewall off briefly and accessed an AOL page with changing > ads while I cooked dinner. ############################ To unsubscribe from the LSTOWN-L list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-PEACH.exe?SUBED1=LSTOWN-L&A=1