As you may recall, I decided I would try to hack my own Yahoo email account and see if Yahoo might try to notify me of the hacking attempts.
My first try took this form...
I tried to log into my account on 26 successive attempts, feeding passwords ranging from the single letter 'a' to 'z'.
Each time, I was greeted with a message saying the password was incorrect, but nothing beyond that.
I then logged onto my Yahoo account with the correct password, checked my email, and nothing---no warning that someone had tried to log into my account 26 times in succession with an incorrect password.
I'll try this later again today with a little more aggression and see what happens.
My first try took this form...
I tried to log into my account on 26 successive attempts, feeding passwords ranging from the single letter 'a' to 'z'.
Each time, I was greeted with a message saying the password was incorrect, but nothing beyond that.
I then logged onto my Yahoo account with the correct password, checked my email, and nothing---no warning that someone had tried to log into my account 26 times in succession with an incorrect password.
I'll try this later again today with a little more aggression and see what happens.
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