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My mom is a yahoo acount user.  When she pressed the internet explorer, the homepage is www.yahoo.ca.  When the page loaded, where it says the name of the current user using their yahoo account it said, "lieswillgetu". She pressed mail and it showed their inbox and the persons name was Willie.  She closed is because she was scared what had happened.  Has anyone heard of this or knows if it a hack.  Plz get back to me as soon as you can.

*as well, is it possible for someone to hack our internet account and use it for their own use?*

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Originally posted by LoochTheMan
My mom is a yahoo acount user.  When she pressed the internet explorer, the homepage is www.yahoo.ca.  When the page loaded, where it says the name of the current user using their yahoo account it said, "lieswillgetu". She pressed mail and it showed their inbox and the persons name was Willie.  She closed is because she was scared what had happened.  Has anyone heard of this or knows if it a hack.  Plz get back to me as soon as you can.

*as well, is it possible for someone to hack our internet account and use it for their own use?*

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Its not a hack. Someone logged into the account on your computer or Yahoo screwed up the sessions thinking it came from your computer.

It might be caused by a proxy (at your ISP or in a local network) that caches pages. When "lieswillgetu" was logged in, the proxy cached his/her pages, then when your mom requested the same pages, the proxy returned the cached versions.

I've seen this happen at my school with Yahoo.

If this happens in future just refresh the page, or even better a deep refresh (Ctrl+F5)...
Believe me hacking accounts on a server that protected isn't that easy...