Strange goings on - email - hacked?

mary2012

Good morning techie's... I have just checked my yahoomail and there is 4 failure notices, 4 mail delivery failure's, 1 email from myself that I havent sent, (and it has gone to my local MP !!) and one from my catalogue saying they will get back to me.. I never sent them anything either...

Have I been hacked or something?

mary2012

It looks like I have been hacked from Japan in the night. My friends have had emails from me, obviously not really from me....

Do I just change passwords now?

imho

http://ask-leo.com/email_hacked_7_things_you_need_to_do_now.html
Miss the bit where your password been hacked as looks like you can still get on your email.
I would scan with http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free/ make sure you update it and delete what it finds.

mary2012

Thanks imho... I am out for the afternoon, but will get onto this later on. Its all very inconvenient!!

dodger1

Sounds the same as me. I received an email that said "from" and then a name of a friend. Unfortunately I didn't check the email address. I looked at the email and clicked the link still thinking it was from my friend. The link took me to a make money on the internet type of site so I thought nothing more of it until I started getting returned emails and everything else you mentioned.

They just sent similar emails to all the addresses I had in the email address book, so I told my daughter to forward one on to me and I would open it. It was just the same, a money making site. No major harm done but I have had similar emails since and then I noticed that where the emails say "from" all the names are from my facebook page and copied exactly. So it appears that they are trawling facebook to do this.

I've now set my facebook to private and changed my email password and the fake emails are getting rare now.