Security alert?

[Trog]

Has anyone else had emails with just a hyperlink from someone else on the forum? I've just had two supposedly from Jimbo on my private email account and one from him on the public one. These were also sent to two other forumites, I think, guessing names from email names. Obviously I never click on these hyperlinks and just delete the emails. I've had a few more of these supposedly from beekeepers who have my email address so it could be difficult to find out whose email account has been borrowed by the spammers.

[The Drone Ranger]

No nothing like that Trog thanks for the heads up

[gavin]

Both Jim and me seem to have had our BT accounts hacked yesterday, for which I apologise. Not that I could have done much about it. Folk say that Yahoo (BT use them) has had a spate of this so I don't think it is forum linked.

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[EmsE]

I've received some too. Only from forumites though.

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[Jon]

Gav. maybe the problem is with the forum security.
I had e-mails from yourself and Jimbo to my private account and also to an account I used to mail morphometry stuff to Jimbo a while back.

Has anyone got any from my e-mail account which ends j******@fsmail.net ?

Or is it only BT yahoo accounts affected?

[chris]

I had an email from Gavin's personal email adress. It was also apparently sent to a member of Gavin's family at the same time. Considering the site on the link, I thought it was a joke!!
Nothing from you Jon, but then you're rather mean with words. ;-)

[Trog]

Jon, you were a cc on the two I got from Jimbo to my private email address, as was EmsE. I can't remember what the isp was and it's been deleted from the 'trash' folder so I can't check.

[Jon]

Thanks Trog.
I didn't click any of the links in the e-mails I received as the first one ended .ru and that generally indicates spam.
Clicking the link could well start spam from your own e-mail. If anyone starts getting spam from my fsmail.net account please let me know so I can do something about it.

[gavin]

Don't see a forum link tbh. All of my contacts going back several years were spammed. I was first aware when I had a flood of 'Failure to deliver' messages on my phone, people who have changed addresses. That can only come from hacking into my BT account and that password is different from the one for the forum. There were no traces in my Sent Mail. The hacker used BitterNet, an ISP in the Ukraine. Apparently.

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[Trog]

Spam emails last week were from other beekeeping contacts. I think some get filtered out by webmail before they reach my inbox.