Bt yahoo accounts hacked

Now, in , we hear that Yahoo was massively hacked two years ago and that at least million customer records have been stolen. You should also ensure that you are not using the same password anywhere else on the web password reuse is a cardinal sin and that you have enabled two-step verification on as many of your online accounts as you can. But it still makes sense to take precautions.

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Now an independent security analyst, he regularly makes media appearances and is an international public speaker on the topic of computer security, hackers, and online privacy. Follow him on Twitter at gcluley , or drop him an email. Email filters - Check to see if new filters have been created. Sending name - Confirm your sending name has not been changed. Email signature - Confirm your email signature has not been changed. Reply-to address - Make sure replies to your emails are going to the right inbox.

Send-only address - Check to see if a Send-only address has been added or changed. Vacation response - Check to see if any unfamiliar automatic replies have been set up. Default sending address - Confirm the address that pre-populates in the "From" field is right. Blocked addresses - Make sure there aren't addresses blocked that you want to get email from. Auto-forwarding address - Make sure your email isn't being forwarded to any unfamiliar email addresses. I've paid an IT person to have a looked and check everything was secure.

I've spoken to BT twice - they were not able to offer much help other than someone had got my password and used it? How I live and work on my own and if someone had my password they wouldn't need to change my user name and password. I never use a computer outside the home so I'm not logging onto other networks. I've asked if I can add some other level of security but have been told that its not possible because at some point I've been moved to Yahoo from BT's emails although I still pay BT for the service.

I don't get the two step authentication that BT offers. Yesterday sometime during the night I was hacked again between me logging off at Emails that had arrived during that period had been opened and my user name and password had been changed. There were no pin codes on my phone. I went back into the BT account setting checked everything was ok there and reset the password for the account in case someone had been in there.

I reset my user name and password and got codes pinged through as normal. I am at my wits end - I can't sleep as these people are doing untold damage to my business by stealing customers data. I'm paying for a premium service but getting nothing other than fobbed off. Other than move from BT does anyone have any suggestions what is going on here? Use a more secure email service. BT email is only intended for personal use, not for business , as there is no two step verification.

It is just the same residential service that millions of people have. The only difference is that you are paying for it. Can you explain what you mean when you say "Yesterday sometime during the night I was hacked again between me logging off at If your username and password have been changed how are you managing to log onto your email account?

One thing you should do meanwhile is to log onto your email account and check to see if there is any forwarding set up. If there is and it was not set up by you, you need to delete it.

Thank you to both posters for replying. I'm understanding now from what you say that what I though I was paying for isn't anything different than an ordinary account. I was able to get back in by clicking onto reset my user name and reset my password in my account details. When I did this it gave me a 4 number pin code for each by phone to put in to change my user name and password. I'm at a loss why it didn't send pin codes by phone when the account was hacked during the night.

I've also changed the account password again as well although that wasn't changed so I could get in that. It was just the email. There is no forwarding email that I can see - were would I find this? There are two accounts linked to my account so those emails will come to me according to BT. I did query them with BT when they were looking at my issues and they told me they must be old accounts that had be automatically linked when the email was switched from BT to Yahoo.

Sky recommends subscribers who use Sky Yahoo Mail to change their password to keep their accounts safe, and has also set up a help page for customers.

The company did not respond immediately to a request for comment. If BT Broadband customers — anyone with an email address ending btinternet.

Affected customers should change their webmail password, as well as that on any service that used the same one.