someone has used my email address!!!

yorkie77

I came home yesterday to find that someone had set my vacation reply to a message and sent it to a few of my contacts but also people that I don't know. Please help have I been hacked? :mad:

jasmin10

Was this your hotmail account. I had the same thing and apparently it is happening a lot at the moment. Hotmail advise changing password regular.

I kept getting emails from people that have spamed me so they didn't want a reply to say I'm on holiday.

yorkie77

Thanks for replying, yes it's my hotmail account. They sent information about some sort of electronics company cheeky so and so's. I have also had quite a few delivery status notification failures. I daren't sign in to my online bank now.

RaiderHammer

yorkie77 wrote: »

Thanks for replying, yes it's my hotmail account. They sent information about some sort of electronics company cheeky so and so's. I have also had quite a few delivery status notification failures. I daren't sign in to my online bank now.

Are you receiving e-mails? If not make sure your e-mails are not being dirverted to another e-mail address. This happened with a Yahoo account I had and was connected to an Ebay fraud attack.

yorkie77

I changed the vacation reply so am now receiving emails. Thanks for replying.

jasmin10

Dont forget to change your password.

yorkie77

Thanks I have. I have included upper and lower case letters and numbers and is now classed as 'strong'.

thomas01155

Add a few symbols at the end )(*&^%$£"!}!!~@:?></+-

yorkie77

I would probably forget which ones I had used lol

weegie.geek

Firefox and the passwordmaker extension. you can make crazily long passwords and you don't even have to remember it.