secure email ?

[teardrop]

anybody know of a email provider thats more secure than yahoo my yahoo got hacked and sent out mass emails to everyone i know i have seance changed my password but damn yahoo make it harder to hack my shit

[n8ball2013]

make your password harder to hack.

upper case lower case special characters. make it longer than 16 characters as well.

[Lbox88]

Change it to somethin like "KissMyFatAssHackerz" and maybe they'll get a good enough laugh out of it to leave you alone.

[IBleedMusick]

All of the email providers have their flaws and loopholes the best thing to do is what N8 suggested I also change my password every 3-6 months. If not try out gmail it seems to be solid.

[Jaloosk]

make your password harder to hack.

upper case lower case special characters. make it longer than 16 characters as well.

This. And use <alt> characters too; things like ½ or º or Ü. It's not Yahoo's fault your password got hacked, it's your fault for not making it secure.

[Katt]

Like mentioned above.

If all fails,

AOL Mail has worked flawlessly for me for 6+ years.

[Jaloosk]

That's because you're the only one using it.

[Sheena]

It's hard to have a secure email, most email sites such as yahoo or hotmail have their flaws.

I watched a hacker in my hotmail inbox try cleaning out my messages, hitting f5 showed me everything he was doing.

Hotmail probably has a deal with someone in which they sell emails and passwords to.

Like when I played world of Warcraft, after bringing my account back from frozen status I was immediately hacked on WoW and in my email. Neither of them had the same password.

It was fine for a whole year before that.

This really shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone though. This is how the Internet is.

Saying "get a stronger password" is quite silly in itself. Contrary to popular belief there isn't a group of people who are spending 30 hours or more typing in every combo of words and letters. Nor is there a program that can input it automatically to email sites. (there is a combo of programs that run in tandem to do this, but the coder still spends hours scripting commands)

Most email sites allow you to put the wrong password in a few times, then they make you recover it, or lock your email for a few mins.

If you were hacked a few things are probably the cause.

A rather rare key logger

Someone who knows your password

Your info was sold

But 98% of the time it isn't because of a "weak password"

But after a compromised password it's best to follow these steps in order:

Do a full scan on your computer with a well known GOOD scanner. I DO NOT MEAN avg, or norton, just to name two.

Use super anti spyware or malwarebytes.(a full scan)

Then change your password. (because it is compromised)

This eliminates your computer from being further at fault (if it is to begin with)

[n8ball2013]

You really think hotmail and yahoo etc are selling off passwords and user info?

[Jaloosk]

Most password hacking programs don't go very deep as far as the number of characters in the password or the character types. That's why Nate said to use a LONG password, plus something with uncommon characters. It makes the password infinitely harder to crack, even when you have a cracking program.