[Artemisia] Arwen't e-mail hijacked!

[Richard Samul]

This seems to be happening a lot - there's been a few hijacked here in  
Arn Hold recently - and they've all been Yahoo address. Without  
exception. Once hijacked, these email addresses are near impossible to  
recover, since the hijackers tend to change the password to keep you  
out while they pillage your outbox and address book for known good  
addresses to spam.

I would suggest that anyone with a Yahoo email address check your  
password, and consider changing it. A recent article I saw stated that  
6-character passwords can be cracked in a matter of hours with current  
processor power, yet a 12-character password will (theoretically) take  
*years*. A mix of upper and lower case, along with numbers, is the  
most secure - obviously, avoiding dictionary words helps.

Just a thought.

-- 
HL Earc Cearr
Barony of Arn Hold

On Aug 24, 2010, at 5:22 PM, Allen Hall wrote:

>
> Hello All,
>
> It appears that Arwen's e-mail address has been hijacked.  Don't  
> reply, don't send money, etc, etc.
>
> This same thing happened to Duchess Anna and she had to get a  
> completely new e-mail address.
>
> Beware, and good luck getting it fixed Arwen!