ToTo Man
the band not the dog
My parents and I all have Yahoo email addresses. This morning I find three emails in my Spam folder purporting to be from my Yahoo contact list, one of which is me. All emails arrived on 28th Jun. Hovering the mouse over the sender's names shows them to be from the following email addresses, none of which are in my contacts:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
My mum has received two emails from names that both her and I have in our contact lists, myself and a relative. Again, we don't recognise the email addresses of the senders:
[email protected]
[email protected]
My dad received only one email, purporting to be from me. It was deleted before I noted the email address but chances are it came from a Hotmail or Outlook email address like above.
I'm the only one who has a second email address, and it is a Hotmail address. Given that the spam/spoof emails are from Hotmail or Outlook addresses I'm thinking it's my Hotmail account that's been compromised rather than my Yahoo, which is surprising as it's normally Yahoo that's leakier than a sieve when it comes to data breaches.
Can someone explain to me what kind of breach I'm likely to have experienced and what steps I need to take to protect myself, aside from obviously changing my Hotmail and Yahoo passwords?
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
My mum has received two emails from names that both her and I have in our contact lists, myself and a relative. Again, we don't recognise the email addresses of the senders:
[email protected]
[email protected]
My dad received only one email, purporting to be from me. It was deleted before I noted the email address but chances are it came from a Hotmail or Outlook email address like above.
I'm the only one who has a second email address, and it is a Hotmail address. Given that the spam/spoof emails are from Hotmail or Outlook addresses I'm thinking it's my Hotmail account that's been compromised rather than my Yahoo, which is surprising as it's normally Yahoo that's leakier than a sieve when it comes to data breaches.
Can someone explain to me what kind of breach I'm likely to have experienced and what steps I need to take to protect myself, aside from obviously changing my Hotmail and Yahoo passwords?