I Got An E-mail This Morning That Many Yahoo Accounts Were Hacked. I Can't Get E

I got ann e-mail this morning that many e-mail accounts from yahoo were hacked. Mine was. What can i do? i must have access because we have a family member in the hospital.

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Answer #1: Posted by Odin on July 16th, 2014 4:45 PM

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I qould be very surpised if this were not a scam. I can't find anything about such a mass hacking on the Web. My advice is to ignore it.

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