How to recover your hacked Yahoo! account
January 1, 2009 almost became one of the worst day of my life because my 6 years old Yahoo! account got hacked, All my valuable personal mails, some important files, pictures, membership access, and lots of contacts are in my Yahoo account. The hacker even changed my zip code and deleted and changed my alternate emails so I will not be able to reset my password.
I spend the whole 1st day of January of 2009 trying to bring back my account. I’ve tried different tricks and tools to saved my account but they all failed. I never did think of emailing Yahoo for my problem because most of the people say that Yahoo always ignore them regarding their hacked Yahoo password problem. I said to myself that if there is anyone that can bring back my Yahoo account it is Yahoo.
On January 2, 2009 I send a mail to Yahoo Account Security Department stating my problem, I told them the whole story and how important my that account to me. After two hours I did receive a automated response asking for some verification. So I did send again with all my information to them. I did not hear from them after their last mail.
January 4, 2009 I receive a mail from Yahoo with my new password, YAHOOOOO!!!!. It is really a Yahoooo day 
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To be able to reset your hacked yahoo password just send a mail to Yahoo Security Department – account-security-help@cc.yahoo-inc.com. always remember to be polite in contacting them, tell the whole story, don’t blame them for your hacked account, tell them when is the last time you access your account, supply them the password that you last used to accessed your account, give them all the information you entered when you register your account or just the information when you last update your account.
There are lots of tricks on the internet on how you can recover your password. Don’t try them it is just a waste of time, high security risk and most of all they DON’T WORK.
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Really good article. I heard that restoring password is not that easy. You are lucky enough to regain the password back.
Sagar
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this is the importance of filling the exact information or you during the registration or at “consistent” information in case you need to recover stolen account in the future..indeed you’re lucky to get them back !
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Excellent tip…..
Very nice info, My classmate in college whom we used to call DEL (his nickname) and also a computer geek also had his email hacked by notorious hacker, and what he did is also to email the yahoo and fortunately he had his password recovered by YaHo0 after few days. This post is really “a must to read post”
Please keep on posting…Thanks for the info….
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Nice site you have!
I never thought you could get your old password back. This is certainly a very useful information for us who might experience the same thing in the future. My question is: Is it also possible for Yahoo! to inform you who has hacked your account (maybe from the hacker’s IP?).
My boyfriend’s email was just hacked. the hacker used my bf’s YM and chatted with me. He asked me to let him view my webcam and even offered me money! i sent yahoo the report. i really hope they can recover it.
thanks. I’m more than lucky to be able to bring back my yahoo account.
this is the second time that yahoo account has been hacked the first time was back in 2006 but luckily for me I still able to recover my account.
thanks. this is the first thing you should do if your account get hacked. always be honest and try to remember every possible info that you inputted when you register your account.