In its place, Yahoo has provided you with the option to recover your Yahoo mail and password with the help of alternate Email address and recovery phone number. Because of several hacks in 2016, Yahoo! Wait for the Yahoo support team to review your request and send you an email with further instructions. How can i know my recovery email or security question answer. When I gave them, she was able to give me a temporary password over the phone so I could reset it. They said I had to give them the phone number associated with the account when I established it.
If you don't have any recovery information associated with your account, you won't be able to recover it. They have almost certainly been deleted from your account by now. I don't remember my password or the answers to my security questions. We can't give you the exact time that your account was locked or when it will be unlocked. If you have chosen recovery by using the secret question, few secret question will be asked, according to what you have filled up while creating this Yahoo account. To protect your account, you'll need to enter a phone number or recovery email address. From : Security questions are no longer used for verification.
Click Continue or you can click Create new password and update Your new Password on the spot. When you initially set up your Yahoo! Remember: Yahoo has no idea who you are until you login in. Enter the security code Yahoo sent to your mobile phone number on the next screen and click Next. I sure hope this helps some other frustrated person who has this problem. Yahoo mail users need a valid username and password to access their Email account and different services provided by Yahoo.
But in some of the cases, the users forgot their Yahoo security question and their answers as well. If you haven't set that up, and you are having trouble logging in, follow the guidance at. I've moved several times over the years and can't remember for sure where I was when I set this up, let alone the telephone number. Same thing happend to me, I had a yahoo account for 20 years and now all of a sudden its asking for the security question that I don't know. Even if you have no idea on how to do so, just go through some of the steps mentioned below.
Nor have I lost emails or contacts. As a security measure, ur account has been locked to prevent unauthorized users from being able to access it. Do yourself a favor and switch to gmail. You can recover your password with the help of phone number and recovery email id. Sometimes you can also become temporarily locked out of your own account as a result. I can't remember why I had both numbers; possibly I called one and they gave me the other? You will probably find a 'Help' section when you are trying to log in too, so go there.
Hope the numbers still work and will help other lost souls like I was. I would fully expect that you cannot. In this case, you were required to answer the questions they had provided while login. If you have access to that email, click Yes, email me. Provide details and share your research! Once the lockout time has expired, your password should work as usual. The end result was basically the same.
Now click Yes, text me a code button, Now Yahoo will send a verification code to your phone number. And after that, you have to click on the Sign-in Helper Need Help? That was in the mid-1990's! So here below are the following steps which will allow you to get the old password instantly. In other cases, it was quite easy to hack into the users account. When you log in from a device that's unrecognized, you can get a code sent via text, a phone call, or an email message with secondary information in order to log in. Only if ZombieMail is alive.
I asked my daughter, who is an excellent online researcher, to see if she could find those old phone numbers. I was so relieved, I forgot to get her name so I could commend her to her supervisor. Few of the people tend to forget their username or password. Yahoo was similar except it took only slightly less time for Yahoo to get back to me. Fill out the form and click the Create Request button.