Topic: Hacking.

Background: Protecting your club, your e-mail and profile, and your on-line identity is often a matter we take for granted. Although we hear about other clubs being lost, it hasn't happened to us yet. Frequently, the main of the problem does not lie with Yahoo!, but with ourselves.

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HACKING AND CRACKING


HACKING FOUNDER ACCOUNTS: There is a new rash of vandalizing clubs by hacking founder accounts. Please tell us HOW, in detail, to protect our founder accounts from these hackings. 
   
Yes, we have seen an increase in the number of reported "hacks", but I think that increase is related to the growing rate of Clubs in general.
We find most of these reports to occur when a founder's password is guessed, or a founder promotes someone they don't know that well, and then their Club gets deleted.
Passwords should be changed often, and never use something easily guessable. We've had hacking reports from founder's of NSYNC clubs who used some of the singer's names as their password. That's just way too easy to guess.

 


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