[kwlug-disc] OT: Hotmail/Yahoo account breakins

[chaslinux at gmail.com]

I've noticed the same and had people come in asking what to do about all the spam they've been getting from friends. (and I too sent out some spam a couple of weeks back, likely cross side scripting. Oddly only a few contacts got sent spam, not the hundreds in my gmail address book)

Much of what I've been seeing is link spam.
Blog: http://www.charlesmccolm.com/
www: http://www.rebuild-it.com/
Sent from my cell phone.

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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 22:38:52 
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Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] OT: Hotmail/Yahoo account breakins

On 02/27/2013 10:17 PM, John Kerr wrote:

>
> Is this a bigger problem than anyone inside or outside of Yahoo Hotmail wants to admit to? I ask rhetorically.
>

There has been a really big problem that started about midway last 
week.. Usually, I get one or two people on my client list per year with 
a compromised e-mail account.  But as of last week, just about everyone 
I know with Yahoo (Rogers) accounts has been hit.

One of them didn't even ever use (or know they had) webmail (POP only), 
so it probably wasn't the XSS exploit most people seem to be assuming at 
play.  I've had no luck finding anyone able/willing to explain this 
latest tsunami of compromised e-mail accounts.



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