On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 05:01:34AM -0800, Daniel Lo Nigro wrote:
> I apologise for this spam message that appeared to come from
> me - it appears that someone somehow obtained access to an old
> Yahoo Mail account that I used to use only for mailing lists.
> Not sure how, and their account access logs don't show anything
> (which is very weird). There's nothing in my sent emails or
> trash, and apparently the spam messages were sent via Yahoo's
> mail API (which I've never granted any application permission
> to use).
Yahoo and MSN is known for their high Spam rate and
I'm not convinced that they do not actively sell or
simply hand out e-mail addresses :)
> I've changed my password for that account and have enabled
> two-factor authentication (which I am already using on my main
> email accounts), and I'll delete the account if it happens
> again.
thanks, appreciated!
best,
Herbert
> Thanks,
> - Daniel
Received on Mon Feb 4 23:14:50 2013