Something happened today that really pissed me off, my Yahoo account got hijacked. To anyone affected, I am sorry.

It started with an IM on my Yahoo screen name from a buddy who was on my buddy list, it was a link to a page of photos, I figured he was sending me a pic of him and his boyfriend or something and I clicked on it. It took me to a Yahoo Photos page and asked me to login like it has a million times before and I entered it. I then got a no photos shared message and thought nothing of it.

Today, I signed on to my “other” Yahoo name and got an offline message from myself. It was the link. I thought it was strange but dismissed it. Then a friend on AIM said “Oh that link you sent me didn’t work” I was confused and decided to sign onto my first screen name and found that I had no access. My password had been changed. I took a second look at the link and sure enough it was NOT a Yahoo site. I went through the steps to change my password back praying that they hadn’t changed anything else, luckily they hadn’t and I got my password change and when I got signed on there were messages from tons of people saying “that link didn’t work.” So it seems that everyone on my buddy list got this link, but LUCKILY, whoever sent it, mistyped it and the link was broken with a <font> tag so everyone got a 404 not found error and not the yahoo login. Thank goodness for small things.

Sorry to anyone who got the IM…