Problem with Yahoo mail

[poppypoppy 10]

Hi

 

I've been using yahoo mail accounts for a few years now but just lately when I sign with my e-mail address and password it's asking me for them in a foreign language. I've received an email yesterday from Yahoo about a data breach in December 2016. I changed my passwords then and it's asking me to do it again. Plus I'm getting hundreds of not nice spam emails. I'm sorry if you're having difficulty understanding this but I'm not that good at explaining things when it comes to technical stuff. But if anyone can offer me any advice that would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks.

[geared 302]

Clear all your browser history and all the cache, then try logging in again.

[sgtkate 10]

I use yahoo as a back up mail and I had the same thing. Login page from yahoo Ukraine. Just login as normal if you can work out where to enter your password (after making sure it is the correct yahoo page, type in ymail.com rather than clicking a link). Once in it should ask you to confirm your details in English and the next time you log in it'll be back in English. No idea what happened to cause it and Googling didn't shed any light.

[apelike 10]

No problem here, just signed into it and its fine so try what geared has suggested.

[alan p 15]

I got a email from Yahoo about the security problem and it asked me to click on a link to find out more about it. I decided to look online to find out what Yahoo was doing about this problem. This is what I found.

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN28451.html. I just deleted the email that I had received. I had changed my passwords sometime ago. alan p.

[poppypoppy 10]

Thank you for that... I've just read through it all. My email from Yahoo also has a link in it so I'll be deleting it too. I've tried doing what sgtkate suggests but it's still in foreign language. Also cleared the cache and browsing history but still foreign language. So I've typed ' Yahoo UK mail ' and it brings the login page up in English so fingers crossed. Thank you to everyone of you whose helped me.

Edited October 10, 2017 by poppypoppy

[GLASGOWOODS 10]

Same problem for me last two days. Will try advice given on here.

[Guest]

The recent emails from Yahoo are genuine and telling you about the data breach they had and that they've found out it affects all their users. There is no link to click, maybe your browser turns it into a link, https://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?locale=en_GB&page=content&y=PROD_ACCT&id=SLN28451&actp=productlink

 

The 3 links at the bottom of the email all go to yahoo.com so are genuine.

 

I've had that issue with the language changing before but no idea why it did it in the end

[alan p 15]

If anyone gets a email from Yahoo or Google asking you to click on a link I would still go to their official site to find out more about the email they had sent. I was always told to be careful to what you click on.alan p.

[hoekstra 10]

Anyone still using Yahoo services after all the hacks wants to start looking elsewhere for email hosting - Yahoo are still not being totally straight with their customers regarding the breaches, but you can count that any sensitive information in your emails, and your account passwords etc have almost certainly been compromised and are out there on the darkweb somewhere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_data_breaches

 

Where ever you go next, make sure not to use the same password

 

---------- Post added 18-10-2017 at 22:38 ----------

 

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/yahoo-says-all-3-billion-accounts-were-compromised-in-2013-hack/

 

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/12/yahoo-reveals-1-billion-more-accounts-exposed-and-some-code-may-have-been-stolen/

 

 

...and theres plenty more where that came from

[Cyclone 10]

You shouldn't assume that any sensitive information has been leaked. They stole credentials to a billion accounts, not the content of a billion accounts.