In this information age, email is one of the most important modes of communication between individuals and businesses. Moreover, owing to the viral presence of customers online, many a customer tends to have multiple accounts to use the various online services like online banking, online commerce and other web services. Generally, to track all these services and transactions under a single umbrella, customers link their online activity to their email account. Thus, any unauthorized intrusion or possibility of hacking of a user account could prove detrimental to a user’s online identity.

 

There are many techniques to check whether a Yahoo account is being used by any unauthorized person or not. The Yahoo Technical Support team has exhaustively jotted down all these ideas and techniques in their customer support portals. Users are requested to go through them to get an idea of the possible signs of account hacking. They can very well take this matter on the dedicated social media presence that Yahoo boasts of. Being a trending and a crucial issue, it would definitely gain customer attention and the user could gain important insights on few aspects of how to protect a user account from getting targeted and mal-used.

A few of the tips and techniques which could be used by users to check the overall health of their account include:-

 

a) The user can check the account level feed which details all the email activity that has been performed on the account by any logged on user. In addition to the transaction level data, the user also can find information on the date stamp of log in as well as the internet protocol address form which the account has been accessed. This information can be easily used to understand from the systems from which this account can be accessed, and hence unauthorized access can be easily tracked.

 

b) Another method to check the same is to periodically check the sent items list. Many a time, certain intruders send spams to the account of certain recipients using someone else’s identity. These can be easily tracked, and then corrective actions can be taken.

 

In addition to contact yahoo phone number, customers are strongly advised to follow the tips and instructions sent by the Yahoo team. Yahoo has a dedicated system which tracks each and every account level transaction and reports all malicious transactions identified to the intended user. All Yahoo users are requested to take those instructions seriously and abide by them to prevent any mishap and inconvenience.