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- Your account is most likely hacked, or your password became publicly available. To protect your account from hacking, you need to change your password. When an account is blocked, the main password as well as any App passwords you were using stop working. Access to your data is also revoked for all sites, programs, and mobile apps.
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If you notice something strange while using Yandex (for example, friends receive emails from you that you didn't send, or there are certain actions in the activity history that you didn't perform), your account may have been hacked. Protect your computer from viruses.
If you notice something strange while using Yandex (for example, friends receive emails from you that you didn't send, or there are certain actions in the activity history that you didn't perform), your account may have been hacked.
- Suspicious Activity
- The Password Is Publicly Available
- What to Do If Yandex Asks You to Change Your Password
Yandex automatically checks your account activity. Is a message sent from your inbox spam? Was there a suspicious authorization, etc.? If it becomes apparent you couldn't have performed certain actions yourself (for example, log in to your account from both Vladivostok and Moscow within an hour), your account will be automatically blocked. To unblo...
To check this, Yandex uses a password database which it constantly updated. It contains passwords that somehow became publicly available. For example, it happens if a virus got into the computer or the same password was used on different sites. If Yandex learns that your password is publicly available, it blocks your Yandex ID for security reasons....
This means that you'll have to come up with a new password that only you know. Don't use your old password to prevent the hacker from logging in to your account. What you need to do: 1. Before you change your password, check all the computers and other devices that you logged in to using your old password for viruses. Hackers may use a virus to get...
Phishing messages are emails sent by scammers that pose as legitimate notices from Yandex, banks, and other official organizations. The goal of such messages is to make you enter your password or credit card information into a fake field.
Sometimes hackers steal passwords from poorly protected platforms and make them publicly available. If you use the same password on such a platform and on Yandex, your account could be hacked. Your password can be stolen directly from your computer if a virus gets into your system.
Jan 8, 2018 · A few days ago, while trying to log in, Yandex told me that my account had been likely hacked and asked me to change my password, a thing I could not do without a phone number. After gaining again access to my account I could not detect any suspicious activity there.
Change password. Access to your account has been temporarily restricted as Yandex suspects it may have been hacked. Yesterday, I had forgot about that and created a new account on Yandex. And now I tried to log in, and it shows the same error message as above.
