How to I reassociate my public profile to me?

Question

My public profile does not seem to be associated with my account anymore and I can not go to my groups unless I create a new one. When I enter the one I previously setup the system tells me it is already taken.

Answer 1

It is possible that you have not used this account for a long time. After about 3-4 months Yahoo cleans house, and about 3-4 months later Yahoo releases the name for reuse by the first person who asks for it.

The other possiblitily is that someone figured out your password (or you gave it to them) and they hacked the account. Here is a security site that might help.

http://security.yahoo.com/article_privac...

You can try to contact Yahoo at

1-866-562-7219.

Agents are available Monday-Friday from 6am-6pm PST.