Someone added a cell phone number to my yahoo account.
I have the number, it is located in Anaheim, California , U.S. I am in Canada, near Montreal.
I never authorized any such thing. I don't own a cell phone.
Do i need to do anything about this?
It would be wise to contact yahoo at least..? Explain the situation and ask them to disable/delete the attached phone number from your yahoo account.
Also "immediately" change your yahoo password to something a lot harder to "hack"/imitate etc...
Suggestions are usually to insert the zero in place of any letter "O"you might wish to use; and perhaps the number one in place of the letter "I"; to include a period (full stop) in the sequence of characters used in your password (if yahoo allows that; some services do and some don't). Also insert at least one capital letter; and some suggest using a capital X in place of at least one letter. I think you can see the overall idea? I have seen some colleagues replace all vowels with assorted characters; some avoiding vowels altogether.
If all else fails - delete the account and re-establish a new one; and in the user name for it - again include a period/full stop in your "user name".e.g.
m1ckey.m0use2 - or perhaps m1.ckeym0use2; although these examples might be relatively easy to crack of course...
Just inserting a period in a user-namemakes it harder to web bots etc. to spam your account; also for hacker/spoofers etc. to infiltrate and attach to it...
Also "never" post your email address or any other on-line account user-name or other details "anywhere"; not the least in any open forum...
Thank you very much,
Yeah you must have gotten sloppy and let someone get your password. You might want to call the number and see what they have to say about it.