When I went to log into my Yahoo Mail account, Yahoo stated that it strongly believed that my account had been compromised. I'm not sure how it happened. My guess is that Yahoo was hacked.
I reset the password and security questions on my Yahoo account. I also reset my Gmail account password.
I looked in the Sent folder and I don't see any spam.
I'm on a Mac.
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Is there anything else that I need to do?
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I had a lot of personal info in my email. Do I need to worry about identity theft? That's my biggest concern. If the scumbags sent fake Viagra ads from my account, that's not great, but it's not a big deal. Identity theft would be a big pain.
Best Answer
It is very unlikely that Yahoo was hacked. More likely your account fell victim to cookie theft or something else in that vein. You've already changed your password and security question, and no mail seems to have been sent from the account, so I would not worry about it. You've already done everything you can do.
If you want to be extra safe, you might go over your inbox and check for any financial or otherwise important information you might have in there (bank login info, credit card numbers (unlikely), passwords to other sites, etc.), and take the appropriate precautions with regard to any sensitive information you find.