[Wolves] Spam ... my fail

[Mike Hingley]

Hi Kevan, 

Nope - my account was compromised - I can see copies of the messages sent in my sent folder....  If it was spoofed, I would just see bounce back emails.

> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 11:16:32 +0100
> From: kevanf1 at gmail.com
> To: wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Wolves] Spam ... my fail
> 
> On 7 July 2010 00:23, Mike Hingley <computa_mike at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi -
> >
> > i just got a phone call from my brother telling me that my account has been
> > hacked, and I've been sending out Spam..  It is possible (although I haven't
> > found any evidence to support that) that emails may have originated from my
> > account to the mailing lists - or even to individuals on the lists.  The
> > hack seems to have sent emails to everyone on my address list.  I can't
> > remember if the Mailing list is in there...
> >
> > I really can't appologise enough - I think I have narrowed the timeframe to
> > this afternoon - when I used what I assumed to be safe Kiosk windows PC at
> > work to check my email.  Naturally I'll get onto the IT support team
> > tomorrow to check the PC for worms and such like.
> >
> > Kind of scary how easy it is to get hacked.     I've got control of the
> > account now, and have changed my password to something else - so hopefully
> > that should be it.  I'll keep a really close eye on it over the next few
> > days to ensure that nothing is leaving my account that I did not send.
> >
> > Sorry guys.
> >
> > Mike.
> >
> >
> Could they just be spoofing your e-mail address rather than actually
> having hacked into it?  I've seen that happening more and more lately
> :-(
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