Seeing as my sent mail folder is full of the that message sent to all my
contacts, i am pretty sure the mailbox was gotten into
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On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 12:42 AM PST Mike Barnard wrote:
>On 9 December 2012 17:37, Benjamin Tayehanpour
><[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Without SPF protection, I could send e-mails which look like they
>> originate from your account, and the receiver will have no means of
>> verifying the sender address since SPF isn't implemented. That's one of
>> many reasons why Yahoo! is a bad e-mail service provider. I'm not saying we
>> should ban all users of Yahoo!; I'm saying Yahoo! as a service provider
>> should be boycotted due to the numerous flaws in their service.
>>
>> That said, I'm glad you managed to change the password so you didn't lose
>> the account. Such things can be a real pain otherwise! Do you know how the
>> breach happened?
>>
>>
>The "breach" will most likely happen again... I doubt that the person
>actually got into his mailbox. Most spam from yahoo addresses tends to be
>from botnets that take advantage of the fact that one cannot legitimately
>check whether its actually yahoo who sent the email.
>
>
>--
>Mike
>
>Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a
>million chances happen 99% of the time.
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