[Durham] Mail account hacked

[Nick]

Quoth Oliver Burnett-Hall:
> On 24 March 2013 08:48, Bill <wdnp2 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > I have unsubscribed from your group some time ago but on 22 
> > March was
> > inundated by messages which I suspect originated from my connection with
> > your group.Messages have been sent from my account to all and sundry.
> > Yahoo have suggested I have a suspected hacked mail account.Can  you
> > help investigate this?
> 
> ...
> 
> I haven't seen anything unusual with messages coming from this mailing list, so
> I suspect that it is a problem with your account.

For what it's worth, I've been subscribed to this group for around a 
year, with a unique address (an advantage of having my own domain), 
and haven't seen any spam at all to it (which cannot be said for 
some similar mailing lists).

Nick