Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?
On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 11:22:34 -0400 (EDT), Andrew McGlashan wrote:
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> On 13/10/2015 7:15 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote:
>> Stuart Longland: I had a similar case on my self-administered mail
>> host. A friend of mine has an account there and random hosts from
>> all over the world used his credentials to send legitimately
>> looking spam. We never found out how this happened but changing the
>> password was enough to make it stop.
>
> Odds on it was open WiFi somewhere, people trust public WiFi ... I
> cannot understand why. It is patently stupid [or ignorant at best] to
> use public [or otherwise open] WiFi -- if you don't run it yourself or
> you totally trust the person whom is running it, then leave it alone.
That may have been the case for Stuart's friend, but it is not the case
with me. I use only wired ethernet.
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