WARNING: Changing your Yahoo! account password is NOT enough to regain control of your account!

There’s an insidious hack you need to check on immediately — whether a hacker has changed your settings to auto-forward all your email to another address he controls. He doesn’t care whether you’ve changed the password, if all your email is going to be auto-forwarded to him! In fact, he hopes that you regain confidence in your Yahoo! email and continue using it. 

So how many emails did you get today informing you of Epsilon’s breach exposing your email address?

 
Six, so far. I’m listing them in order of how promptly they informed me. I’m expecting more from other vendors who are tardy …

1st TiVo: Saturday April 2, 2011 9:00:43 PM EDT
2nd College Board: Saturday April 2, 2011 10:31:41 PM EDT
3rd JP Morgan Chase: Monday April 4, 2011 4:33:27 AM EDT
4th Hilton Honors: Monday April 4, 2011 6:27:19 PM EDT
5th Walgreens: Monday April 4, 2011 7:20:10 PM EDT
6th Red Roof Inn: April 4, 2011 9:45:29 PM EDT