How to Recover a Forgotten Yahoo! Mail Password

Maybe there's a really important message waiting for you in your Yahoo! Mail account. Maybe, because you don't know. You have forgotten your password.

If you have not also forgotten the answers to your secret questions or have a secondary email address added to your Yahoo! Mail account, help is available.

• Go to the Yahoo! Password Helper page.
• Make sure I have a problem with my password is selected.
• Click Next.
• Type your Yahoo! Mail email address under My Yahoo! ID is:.
  • You can also enter just the user name part (what comes before, for instance, "@yahoo.com").
• Now type confirmation code from the image or audio playback under Type the code shown.
• Click Next.
• If you have specified an alternate email address for recovery:
  • Type your alternate email address under Send a message to my alternate email address:.
  • Click Next.
  • Open the email from Yahoo! with the subject "How to reset your Yahoo! password".
  • Follow the Reset My Password link in the message.
  • If you want to answer your secret question:
    • Make sure Use my secret questions. is selected.
    • Click Next.
    • For each question:
      • Enter the answer beneath the question.
      • Click Next.
• Type the desired password under New password: and Retype the password:.
• Click Next.

You can then change this password to whatever you like (and will remember); it is best, of course, to use a strong password.

Recovering or reactivating a deleted Yahoo account

To reactivate your account

1. On a desktop or laptop computer, visit the Yahoo Sign In page.
2. Enter your Yahoo ID and password.
3. Confirm your Yahoo ID and complete the CAPTCHA verification.
4. Select Reactivate at the bottom of the page.

If successful, the reactivation can take up to 24 hours. Keep in mind that some account data may be lost and not recoverable.

While it may be possible to recover certain deleted or inactive Yahoo Mail accounts, recovery is not possible if:

• The account was deactivated due to a violation of the Terms of Service.
• The account was deleted due to inactivity (you must sign-in at least once every 12 months).

How can I recover my Yahoo account if I don’t know the answer to the security question?

My Yahoo account when I log in in it doesn’t accept the password. I tried several times and I have some emails that require to be replied to. I am requesting if there is a way I can open it without answering the secret questions, since I can’t remember them clearly. Please help me!

Thanks in advance

Recover your Yahoo! ID or password using your alternate email address or security questions
http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?locale=en_US&y=PROD_ACCT&page=content&id=SLN2081
How to reactivate or recover a deleted Yahoo! ID or Yahoo! Mail account
http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?locale=en_US&page=content&y=PROD_ACCT&id=SLN2624&impressions=false
Fix Hacked Yahoo Account
http://moonrivers.com/?p=365
In case of a hacked account send a mail describing your problem to account-security-help@cc.yahoo-inc.com. If this doesn’t help, call Yahoo: 1-408-349-1572, or 866-562-7219 then press on #2 explain to a customer service person what happened. They will ask you to do certain things and then they compare your original info with the changed info. Within 24 hrs you should get your account back!