[MR] [Lochmere] Fw: note [WARNING - HACK ALERT]

[Karen Hume]

Good things to know.  I hadn't really checked to see that the accounts were
all yahoo or a mix.  I'll keep that in mind next time.

Thanks for the info.

Chagan


On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:12 PM, <glistam108 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Same thing happened to me too last week and I noticed the yahoo pattern as
> well.  A news story I read points to a flaw in yahoo's security (cross-site
> XSS vulnerability) that was exploited by a specific hacker, who then
> published a "how to."
>
>
> Just a note, victims of these hacks may be unable to respond for up to 48
> hours.  Once yahoo detects the large outgoing volume, it disables your
> ability to send any mail.  Sadly this measure is slow to kick in, often not
> stopping the messages until hours later.
>
>
> -Nicolo
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: Grazia Morgano <grazia at graziamorgano.com>
> To: atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 11:38 AM
> Subject: Re: [MR] [Lochmere] Fw: note [WARNING - HACK ALERT]
>
> On Thursday, March 14, 2013 11:23:46 AM Karen Hume wrote:
> > I've already come across 4 others besides Kalisa's that appear to have
> been
> > hacked.  I just pass them on to the spam alert file.  All have been from
> > folks on the Merry Rose.  Take care folks.
>
> The pattern I notice is that they seem to ALWAYS be Yahoo email addresses.
> My
> mom's Yahoo was broken into a few weeks ago too. Has there been a phishing
> attack aimed at Yahoo users recently? (Hey Yahoo user login here at <link>
> to
> fix your account, blah blah, the page looks like Yahoo's login page but
> isn't,
> and if you don't check the address bar to see that it's not Yahoo, you give
> someone your password by accident)
>
> Grazia
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