on 2014-04-09 13:16 Bob W-PDML wrote
It isn't necessarily their account that was hacked. Suppose my account was hacked and the hacker started looping through each name in my contacts and using that as the from address to send an email to each name in the address book, you would likely receive any number of mails apparently from people you don't know.
interesting thought; i checked the last three such Yahoo spams in my "notable spam" folder; one of them was spoofed - not actually sent through Yahoo; the other two of them were sent through Yahoo and have right-looking Yahoo headers (though i haven't yet found a tool to check DKIM on a received email)
worth noting: i've also had similar spam from acquaintances via Gmail and AOL accounts, but with much less frequency
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