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Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

From Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?
Date 2015-10-14 04:10 +0200
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On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 11:22:34 -0400 (EDT), Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> 
> 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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  .''`.     Stephen Powell    <zlinuxman@wowway.com>
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[OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> - 2015-10-12 16:50 +0200
  Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Florian Pelgrim <florian.pelgrim@craneworks.de> - 2015-10-12 17:00 +0200
    Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Stuart Longland <stuartl@longlandclan.id.au> - 2015-10-12 23:00 +0200
      Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> - 2015-10-13 02:00 +0200
        Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Stuart Longland <stuartl@longlandclan.id.au> - 2015-10-13 06:40 +0200
          Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2015-10-13 10:20 +0200
            Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2015-10-13 17:30 +0200
              Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-13 20:10 +0200
              Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2015-10-13 22:10 +0200
              Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> - 2015-10-14 04:10 +0200
            Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> - 2015-10-14 04:00 +0200
              Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Stuart Longland <stuartl@longlandclan.id.au> - 2015-10-14 04:20 +0200
                Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> - 2015-10-14 05:00 +0200
                Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Stuart Longland <stuartl@longlandclan.id.au> - 2015-10-14 05:20 +0200
                Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Adrian O'Dell <crimsonmane@gmail.com> - 2015-10-14 05:20 +0200
                Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2015-10-14 05:30 +0200
                Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Stuart Longland <stuartl@longlandclan.id.au> - 2015-10-14 05:40 +0200
                Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Timothy Hobbs <timothy@hobbs.cz> - 2015-10-14 10:40 +0200
                Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> - 2015-10-14 15:10 +0200
                Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2015-10-14 05:30 +0200
              Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2015-10-14 04:30 +0200
                Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2015-10-14 05:30 +0200
        Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 08:40 +0200
          Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Stuart Longland <stuartl@longlandclan.id.au> - 2015-10-13 09:10 +0200
            Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 11:00 +0200
              Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-10-13 11:00 +0200
                Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Stuart Longland <stuartl@longlandclan.id.au> - 2015-10-13 11:10 +0200
                Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 11:20 +0200
          Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-13 21:10 +0200
          Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> - 2015-10-14 03:30 +0200
            Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2015-10-14 11:00 +0200
        Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-13 13:20 +0200
        Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? stelios kteniadalis <keste82@gmail.com> - 2015-10-14 12:40 +0200
  Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-12 18:40 +0200
    Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> - 2015-10-14 00:50 +0200
      Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Adrian O'Dell <crimsonmane@gmail.com> - 2015-10-14 01:00 +0200
      Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-14 01:00 +0200
        Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> - 2015-10-14 04:30 +0200
          Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-14 11:10 +0200
            [SOLVED] [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> - 2015-10-16 01:00 +0200
      Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Stuart Longland <stuartl@longlandclan.id.au> - 2015-10-14 03:30 +0200
  Re: [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked? Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2015-10-12 22:50 +0200

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