I think a Flickr account may have been compromised, what happened and what can I do?
First, please read a security notice we issued previously. If it was another person’s account, who leaves suspicious photopage comments or emails linking away from Flickr for you to access ‘private pictures’, please use the Report Abuse link at the bottom of the page. Make sure you identify the Flickr Member and provide details of the incident. It may be innocent, but it can’t hurt to let us know if you are concerned. There are a couple ways this probably occurred: 1) A link left by someone on a photopage or in FlickrMail, which invites you to download a photo package. The link may send you to a page designed to look like Flickr and links to a file. The file is likely malicious, containing a keystroke logger that affects Microsoft Windows computers, or some other Trojan Horse application which allows someone else to monitor what you do on your computer. It may not just log how you access Flickr, but it could potentially record other interactions you have on the Internet. 2) A link, sim
First, please read a security notice we issued previously. If it was another person’s account, who leaves suspicious photopage comments or emails linking away from Flickr for you to access ‘private pictures’, please use the Report Abuse link at the bottom of the page. Make sure you identify the Flickr Member and provide details of the incident. It may be innocent, but it can’t hurt to let us know if you are concerned. There are a couple ways this probably occurred: 1) A link left by someone on a photopage or in FlickrMail, which invites you to download a photo package. The link may send you to a page designed to look like Flickr and links to a file. The file is likely malicious, containing a keystroke logger that affects Microsoft Windows computers, or some other Trojan Horse application which allows someone else to monitor what you do on your computer. It may not just log how you access Flickr, but it could potentially record other interactions you have on the Internet. 2) A link, sim
