How can a profile be completely unavailable?

Someone else's profile shows up on my personal pages instead of my profile. How can I change this?

• Someone else's profile shows up instead of my profile. Once I log in to my yahoo accounts the other person's profile appears and when I use the "My Profile" link it links to the other person's profile information. I have the ability to change all the profile information of this other person. How can I get my original profile back?

• Answer:

  I have heard of this happening to a few people. You need to immediately change your password. Most likely it was compromised either by you clicking a bad link, entering your name and password into a fake log in page, not having a secure password, or some other way your account was cracked. You will have to manually edit the profile yourself to get it back to the way it was.Yahoo even has a help page about this http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/profiles/cctop10/profile.html;_ylt=AoYddKJ3_OdIkUYgb4vK3GT4TCR4 . It will tell you what to do. It gives you the link to change your password and how to contact yahoo if you are unable to change your password. A tip for a more secure password that is harder to crack is one that is at least 8 characters long, uses uppercase and lowercase, numbers, and symbols. Although if you fall for one of the scams it doesn't matter how secure the password is. Here is a very helpful page about password phishing scams: http://security.yahoo.com/article.html?aid=2006111501 Hope this has helped you and please remember to vote for a best answer.