Then forward anything from your yahoo address you want to keep. Then delete everything from the yahoo account and delete the account. I had something similar to this happen to me a few years back with an old hotmail account.  

Good luck!

I'm sure they have dealt with this many times, spams most of the time want your address book, they could care less about the info in your folders, unless your someone like Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, or Kim Kardashian

is the email I recommend  

You always have the option to send mail encrypted and when you send mail to another hushmail account it's automatically encrypted.  

Sending mail through yahoo, Hotmail, gmail etc is like a postcard through the post office.  Yeah, maybe nobody wants to read it....but all it takes is one bored employee.

I've had my account for two years and never have had a spam problem either.  Also, no pesky little ads.

Here's an excerpt from a general article regarding regular email.

"Secure email offered by online providers is usually not encrypted when it's stored," Bocek said. "Without encrypting your email, an employee, support vendor and hackers might be able to read your personal messages.

looked at making things safer. For email I'd suggest gmail or hushmail. Yahoo sucks. I plan to switch to either of the two soon, but for now do all my communications via a burner phone (text and voice).  

The good thing about gmail and hushmail is that they hide the sender's IP address. I'd lean more towards hushmail as it is based in Canada making it a little more difficult for Uncle Sam to reach it. Also Google that owns gmail is very good at searching, storing and consolidating personal data, which is not good for us.  

The chances of LE going to google to bust us humble hobbyists and providers are rare, but why take a chance.

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Spoofing your email address is one of the easiest tricks in the book.  10 years ago, a project manager didn't believe me, in less than 30 seconds with a Telnet client, he had a message in his inbox from the POTUS.  Sending email this way won't leave copies in your sent folder.

The real question is how did they get your address list/book.  If you haven't scrubbed your personal computers, I'd highly suggest you consider it.  And the nuclear option ("nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.") may also be worth thinking about.

I had the same thing happen to me twice with a yahoo account. After the first event I changed my password to something more secure, but was hacked again a few years later. Changed the password again, even more secure, but this time I also activated an option on yahoo that upon login sends a text to my iphone with a unique code, 3 to 5 digits, that must subsequently be entered on yahoo to gain access to my account. Since the code is good for only that login, and the phone number it sends to is only my cell it seems very secure. No problems since, but it's a bit more activity to log in.

In both cases the hacker did not mess with my password and didn't even use my address book. They sent spam to any address that was attached to messages still in my inbox or sent folders.

Whoever attacked my Yahoo account tried to work me over pretty good.

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