Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Virgin Media Cases of Stolen Email Addresses Used for Spoofed Spam

 

Virgin Media Cases of Stolen Email Addresses Used for Spoofed Spam

This list is by no means complete.  Last updated 19 October 2016.
* = suspected and unconfirmed case









10 May 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Email-hacked-can-t-access-account/m-p/3110248/highlight/true#M123920 [Tspinks123]

10 May 2016:  http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/SPAM-email-from-unused-blueyonder/m-p/3110147/highlight/true#M123909 [rw50]

9 May 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Why-mailer-daemon/m-p/3108554/highlight/true#M123770  [blacksparkybun, Fw: new message]

9 May 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Spoofing-and-data-breach-interesting-collection/m-p/3108526/highlight/true#M123762 [ahparker, referring to this page]

8 May 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/My-blueyonder-email-has-been-hacked/m-p/3108105/highlight/true#M123720 [markwells, teequee]

3 May 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Security-matters/Hacked-email-account/m-p/3104085/highlight/true#M22118 [bbplym]

3 May 2016:  http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/mailer-dae-mon-virgin-media-com/m-p/3104086/highlight/true#M123390 [gspence]

2 May 2016:  http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Spoofing-AOL-and-DEMARC/m-p/3103980/highlight/true#M123382 [Matt1959]

30 April 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/All-messages-from-80-0-253-74-will-be-permanently-deferred/m-p/3102395/highlight/true#M123244 [SpamCannibal link is for a block because of a "Fw: new message" email]

30 April 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Delete-my-virgin-net-email-account/m-p/3102291/highlight/true#M123232 [123456123456]

29 April 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/returned-mail/m-p/3101786/highlight/true#M123205  [pixiemarchantsm]

27 April 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Messages-in-virgin-mail/m-p/3100255/highlight/true#M123040 [oct63]

April 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Security-matters/emails-sent-in-my-name-but-not-by-me/m-p/3099876/highlight/true#M22088 [rogerl67]

26 April 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/mailer-daemon-virginmedia-com/m-p/3098985/highlight/true#M122910 [mailer]

24 April 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Email-Spoofing-can-I-stop-it/m-p/3097603/highlight/true#M122713 [thebrads76]

21 April 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Fraud-as-well-as-spoofing-from-my-email-account/m-p/3095873/highlight/true#M122475 [malsiluk]

21 April 2016: https://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Email-is-sending-a-virus-to-all-my-contacts/m-p/3095623/highlight/true#M123614 [Katanamec]

20 April 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Login-to-server-smtp-virginmedia-com-failed-but-password-is/m-p/3094761/highlight/true#M122364 [thundergust]

20 April 2016:  http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Hacked/m-p/3094720/highlight/true#M122353 [hjbradshaw, 6of8, thundergust]

17 April 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Emails-in-my-inbox-quot-Undelivered-Mail-Returned-to-Sender-quot/m-p/3092665/highlight/true#M122078 [derekh110953]

12 April 2016:  http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Txt-msg-from-Virgin-re-blocked-email-account/m-p/3088102/highlight/true#M121490 [ringring]

12 April 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Locked-Account-Again/m-p/3088100/highlight/true#M121489  [Splodgie]

11 April 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Email-address-spoofed-but-struggling-to-get-deleted-by-Virgin/m-p/3087523/highlight/true#M121411 [Barrett_T]

9 April 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/How-do-I-stop-my-now-old-NTL-world-account-from-sending/m-p/3085688/highlight/true#M121188 [ShinerJW]

8 April 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Spoofing-lies/m-p/3085130/highlight/true#M121125 [Unhappy101]

7 April 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/emails/m-p/3084091/highlight/true#M121020 [kilmartins]

5 April 2016:  http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Password-changed-by-spoofer/m-p/3082501/highlight/true#M120739 [jasonby]

2 April 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Cant-log-into-email-account-which-is-sending-messages/m-p/3079802/highlight/true#M120399 [89rallye]

2 April 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Email-name-theft/m-p/3079440/highlight/true#M120339 [keithelliott]

1 April 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/REJECTED-EMAILS-THAT-i-HAVE-NOT-SENT/m-p/3078499/highlight/true#M120188 [AntseySteve]

31 March 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Bounced-SPAM-email/m-p/3078115/highlight/true#M120121 [tjmack]

30 March 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Security-matters/Unable-to-send-emails-from-virginmedia-account/m-p/3077454/highlight/true#M21837 [L0]

29 March 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Emails-not-being-recieved/m-p/3076268/highlight/true#M119824 [Smeghead69]

28 March 2016:  http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Spam-Email-Help/m-p/3075415/highlight/true#M119619 [joggy148]

27 March 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Spoofed-Email-Bouncebacks/m-p/3074709/highlight/true#M119490 [james2k2]

26 March 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Spoofed-Email-Bouncebacks/m-p/3074709/highlight/true#M119490 [LindseyHy]

26 March 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Unwanted-Email/m-p/3073914/highlight/true#M119343  [Gra23]

26 March 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Security-matters/Delivery-Status-Notifications/m-p/3074192/highlight/true#M21789  [sparksey2000]

26 March 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Security-matters/Another-letter-this-morning/m-p/3074116/highlight/true#M21788  [Vulcan24v]

26 March 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/2000-mailer-daemon-emails-help/m-p/3073863/highlight/true#M119336 [kbish]

25 March 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/2000-mailer-daemon-emails-help/m-p/3073863/highlight/true#M119336 [LesleyAnnM, ringring]

25 March 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Security-matters/Spoofing-emails/m-p/3073160/highlight/true#M21773  [fireflash]

25 March 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Security-matters/unable-to-access-emails-or-webmail/m-p/3085565/highlight/true#M21954  [RichardLyndsey]

22 March 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Security-matters/Still-happening/m-p/3070990/highlight/true#M21757  [ljwilson1]

20 March 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Spam-from-myself/m-p/3069212/highlight/true#M118541 [goveb]

20 March 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/My-address-has-been-spoofed-How-do-I-close-my-email-account/td-p/3069537/highlight/true [Bobmcfish]

15 March 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Re-Email-account-locked-Why/m-p/3065589/highlight/true#M118095  [Bigmac2020]

15 March 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Locked-email-account/m-p/3065272/highlight/true#M118009  [phil17]

13 March 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Online-security-for-linux/m-p/3063988/highlight/true#M117855 [Kim-White211]

13 March 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/quot-Unable-to-deliver-quot-report-when-I-haven-t-sent/m-p/3063899/highlight/true#M117837 [SimonMcGlary]

13 March 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Ineptitude-that-knows-no-bounds/m-p/3063961/highlight/true#M117849  [simonjbaker]

11 March 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Unwanted-email/m-p/3062979/highlight/true#M117677 [keithcarps].

9 March 2016, Virgin Media locking some email-account passwords because of "spam"
http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Announcements/Email-help-links/m-p/3060914/highlight/true#M115

3 March 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/My-email-account-is-hacked/m-p/3056289/highlight/true#M116898 [margwildbird]

3 March 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Security-matters/SPAM-emails-from-my-email-address-going-to-all-in-my-contact/m-p/3056401/highlight/true#M21583 [KarenJHare].

1 March 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Security-matters/Returned-email-that-I-never-sent/m-p/3055095/highlight/true#M21553 [sakerclive]

29 February 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Issue-with-Deleting-ntlworld-com-Email-Accounts/m-p/3053752/highlight/true#M116657 [SP1]

28 February 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Spoofed-email/m-p/3053267/highlight/true#M116631 [travenhall1]

27 February 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/My-old-NTL-world-account/m-p/3052582/highlight/true#M116585 [shaken45]

26 February 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Security-matters/Email-address-sending-SPAM/m-p/3051567/highlight/true#M21446  [ET4]

24 February 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Strangers-are-trying-to-send-emails-from-my-account/m-p/3049810/highlight/true#M116299 [angusmcnicol]

23 February 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/my-blueyonder-co-uk-email-is-sending-people-I-know-messages/m-p/3049339/highlight/true#M116219 [jannersaint]

23 Feburary 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Scam/m-p/3049239/highlight/true#M116205  [pjhall].

21 February 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Spoof-emails/m-p/3047131/highlight/true#M116045 [grahamboys]

21 February 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Security-matters/Spoofing-email-account/m-p/3047437/highlight/true#M21367  [jaysilver]

19 February 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Someone-using-my-email-address-spoofing/m-p/3045790/highlight/true#M115965  [KarenStanley]

17 February 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/2000-mailer-daemon-emails-help/m-p/3073863/highlight/true#M119336 [misschich]

17 February 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Security-matters/sending-spam-emails/m-p/3043984/highlight/true#M21332  [Andy_L1, veejay2]

16 February 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/removing-primary-email-address-to-stop-email-spoofing/m-p/3043290/highlight/true#M115713 [Matt1959]

10 February 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Unwanted-and-bounced-e-mails/m-p/3038331/highlight/true#M115303 [petercheznous]

9 February 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/VM-spoof-email-issues-mentioned-in-The-Register/m-p/3037892/highlight/true#M115263 [Solobo]

9 February 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Delete-Primary-Virgin-net-Email/m-p/3037698/highlight/true#M115240 [EveningStar]

8 February 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/virgin-net-account/m-p/3037027/highlight/true#M115166 [millartime88]

8 February 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Leak-of-email-addresses-from-server/td-p/3036766/highlight/true  [JFA]

7 February 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Mailer-Daemon-errors/m-p/3035889/highlight/true#M115045  [chrisgorry]

6 February 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/deleting-a-blueyonder-email-account/m-p/3035111/highlight/true#M114972  [rolandbolton]

4 February 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Email-sending-spam/m-p/3033925/highlight/true#M114839 [fishandchips]

3 February 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Emails/m-p/3033176/highlight/true#M114746 [jackieandste]

1 February 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Spam-sent-from-my-e-mail-address/m-p/3031206/highlight/true#M114419 [roadgiant, dasyurus, bparker170]

1 February 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Please-let-me-leave/m-p/3031144/highlight/true#M114414  [letmeleaveVM]

31 January 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Spam-messages-from-my-account/m-p/3029744/highlight/true#M114282 [lgs2909]

28 January 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Outgoing-SPAM-from-my-email-account/m-p/3027056/highlight/true#M113957  [bparker170]

27 January 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Spam-E-Mails/m-p/3026641/highlight/true#M113928  [BJN]

27 January 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/More-Spoofing-last-night/m-p/3026024/highlight/true#M113838  [Smeghead89]

24 January 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Spoofed-emails/m-p/3023816/highlight/true#M113571  [Sie]

23 January 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Deleting-primary-email/m-p/3023273/highlight/true#M113530 [Tracia]

22 January 2016:  http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/TONNES-of-bounced-back-emails/m-p/3022242/highlight/true#M113409  [bargainmum1]

21 January 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/mailer-daemon-messages/m-p/3021258/highlight/true#M113294  [Sharkey1654, ryoden]

18 January 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/mailer-daemon-messages/m-p/3021258/highlight/true#M113294  [craven49]

18 January 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/More-Spam-and-non-working-spam-filters/m-p/3017851/highlight/true#M112907  [Smeghead89]

16 January 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/rogue-emails/m-p/3016998/highlight/true#M112825 [dmrce1]

14 January 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/E-mail-Spam/m-p/3014589/highlight/true#M112463 [bazann]

12 January 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/How-long-does-email-spoofing-last-for/m-p/3013224/highlight/true#M112337  [Matt1959]

6 January 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Email-problems/m-p/3007039/highlight/true#M111751  [tunky]

5 January 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Spoofing-Data-Breach-issue/m-p/3006700/highlight/true#M111725 [simonjbaker]

4 January 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Letter-this-morning-saying-my-addy-is-spamming/m-p/3005045/highlight/true#M111542 [Vulcan24v]

3 January 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Letter-this-morning-saying-my-addy-is-spamming/m-p/3005045/highlight/true#M111542  [bobbloomfield]

2 January 2016:  http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/non-delivered-email-notifications/m-p/3003879/highlight/true#M111409 [miketobydoze, Andy2]

31 December 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Access-my-profile-well-I-would-if-I-could/m-p/3002410/highlight/true#M111231 [Moodie]

30 December 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Email-Migration-Cataclysmic-Failure/m-p/3001421/highlight/true#M111125  [katebey]

27 December 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Deleting-a-virgin-net-primary-email-account/m-p/2999643/highlight/true#M110997  [rhagwelodd]

23 December 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/How-do-I-move-my-old-ntlworld-emails-over-to-an-email-account/m-p/2998067/highlight/true#M110838  [katebey]

21 December 2016: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Bad-Spam/m-p/2996588/highlight/true#M110626 [james2k2]

20 December 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Security-matters/Spam/m-p/2995823/highlight/true#M20605 

12 December 2015:  http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Spam-from-email-address/m-p/2989554/highlight/true#M109747 [wizardsknob]

11 December 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Spoofed-Emails/m-p/2988877/highlight/true#M109664 [Smeghead89]

10 December 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Deleted-email-address-reactivated-by-Virgin-on-29-11-by-new/m-p/2988623/highlight/true#M109631  [Stephen99]

10 December 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Sending-spam/m-p/2987945/highlight/true#M109516  [shailesh1]

9 December 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Still-getting-SPAM-all-the-time/td-p/2987247  [only report from teamgers]

8 December 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Spoofing-of-email-accounts/m-p/2986828/highlight/true#M109370  [Pbee,  Lakesfan, JCmacc]

7 December 2015:  http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Email-change-issues/m-p/2985420/highlight/true#M109159  [LisaB70]

7 December 2015:  http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Mail-Delivery-System-Failed-and-spam-emails/m-p/2984989/highlight/true#M109101  [CathT]

4 December 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/My-email-is-being-used-to-send-spam/m-p/2983112/highlight/true#M108822  [BrianG]

4 December 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/So-when-are-VM-going-to-take-responsibility/m-p/2983079/highlight/true#M108819  [Riaz1982]

4 December 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/can-I-get-my-email-address-blocked/m-p/2982487/highlight/true#M108713  [Matt1959]

3 December 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Help-email-account-in-cyber-hell/m-p/2982108/highlight/true#M108615  [Mattnkatsmum]

2 December 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Clear-that-Virginmedia-email-server-has-been-compromised/m-p/2981717/highlight/true#M108541  [Riaz1982]

1 December 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/SPAM-Spoofing-and-email-settings/m-p/2980601/highlight/true#M108326  [paddydog]

30 November 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Virgin-email-spam/m-p/2979791/highlight/true#M108145  [Andrea150962]

26 November 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/I-keep-sending-Spam/m-p/2976798/highlight/true#M107614  [Redw28, JCmacc]

25 November 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Has-my-VM-email-account-been-hacked/m-p/2976461/highlight/true#M107554  [BT55, Matt1959, beckenhamsteve]

24 November 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Mail-Delivery-System/m-p/2975484/highlight/true#M107371  [Weesheil]

23 November 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Spoofing-emails-being-sent-out-at-the-same-time-re-separate/m-p/2974170/highlight/true#M107111  [Matt1959, JCmacc, Ipluss]

20 November 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Account-sending-emails/m-p/2972276/highlight/true#M106828  [Phil1963]

20 November 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Undeliverable-e-mails/m-p/2972134/highlight/true#M106795  [teamgers]

20 November 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/My-closed-account-is-being-spoofed-so-I-can-t-log-in-to-change/m-p/2971819/highlight/true#M106741  [TOPSie]

18 November 2015:  http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Email-Account-Hijacking/m-p/2970085/highlight/true#M106381  [Consultant1951]

18 November 2015:  http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Malware-Spoof-Email/m-p/2970016/highlight/true#M106366  [rintsp]

16 November 2015:  http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Sending-SPAM-emails-again/m-p/2968604/highlight/true#M105997  [Clakkers]

16 November 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Virgin-Spoofing-and-poor-1st-line-tech-support/m-p/2968130/highlight/true#M105892  [simonjbaker]

15 November 2015:  http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/E-mail-Spoofing/m-p/2967557/highlight/true#M105803  [IDT01]

15 November 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Email-Spoofing/m-p/2967856/highlight/true#M105851 [Hansard]

14 November 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/How-does-spoofer-access-my-contact-list/m-p/2966927/highlight/true#M105710  [Matt1959]

13 November 2015:  http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/My-email-address-is-sending-out-spam-mail/m-p/2966474/highlight/true#M105642 [Abby2911]

11 November 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Spam-Emails-from-my-email-address/m-p/2963658/highlight/true#M105231 [ginnyjan69]

11 November 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/HEPL-Disable-old-ntlworld-email-address/m-p/2964455/highlight/true#M105330 [Colin61]

8 November 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Security-matters/I-need-to-tell-my-750-contacts-that-a-3rd-party-is-sending-spam/m-p/2961257/highlight/true#M20114 [billydonn]

7 November 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Email-Spam-Spoofing/m-p/2960748/highlight/true#M104756 [alanmcsheehy]

6 November 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Security-matters/Spam-Letter-From-Virgin/m-p/2959811/highlight/true#M20101 [BohemianSpirit] 

6 November 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Email-Spoofing/m-p/2959642/highlight/true#M104575 [ladynyra]

5 November 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Still-sending-spoofed-emails/m-p/2958836/highlight/true#M104475 [Smeghead69]

4 November 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Emailing-spoofing-4th-time/m-p/2957927/highlight/true#M104369 [Lakesfan]

29 October 2015: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/594780/has-my-email-been-hacked-what-can-i-do-about-it/

27 October 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Spam-attached-to-my-email-address/m-p/2953644/highlight/true#M103653  [Shirrmontana]

27 October 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/my-virgin-email-account-has-sent-spam-to-my-address-book/m-p/2953451/highlight/true#M103616  [Matt1959]

19 October 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/ntlworld-account-full-of-spam-from-mailer-daemon-virginmedia-com/m-p/2943920/highlight/true#M102879 [veena]

18 October 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Old-Blueyonder-Email-Accounts/m-p/2943077/highlight/true#M102781 [sjgarth]

17 October 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Email-spoofing/m-p/2942339/highlight/true#M102714 [vcx1]

15 October 2015:  http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email/Only-eMail-accounts-used-on-eBay-and-PayPal-hacked/m-p/2940182/highlight/true#M102352 [Essex52]

12 October 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Security-matters/email-hijacking/m-p/2936766/highlight/true#M19869  [datastart]

10 October 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Security-matters/Hacked-email-Spam/m-p/2927094/highlight/true#M19761  [crusader]

10 October 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Outward-spam-emails-being-sent-from-my-ntlworld-address/m-p/2934786/highlight/true#M101416  [JimMorrison_4]

10 October 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Only-eMail-accounts-used-on-eBay-and-PayPal-hacked/m-p/2940182/highlight/true#M102352 [Essex52]

9 October 2015:  http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/STOP-SPAMMING-MY-CLIENTS/m-p/2933201/highlight/true#M101166  [SpencerK, boothy99]

6 October 2015: https://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/My-email-account-appears-to-be-sending-spam-Have-I-been-hacked/td-p/2930033 [Casper2]

30 September 2015:  http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email/Spam-spoofing-my-email-address-as-the-sender/m-p/2872007/highlight/true#M89666 [from bluegrunt onwards]

27 September 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Deleting-a-blueyonder-account/m-p/2919988/highlight/true#M97591  [Simp179]

25 September 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/email-issues-possible-spoofing-or-hacking/m-p/2919006/highlight/true#M97430 [tac2983, migrantbird2015]

24 September 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Spam-e-mail-sent-using-what-appears-to-be-my-blueyonder-address/m-p/2917744/highlight/true#M97202  [smidy]

22 September 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/earlier-today-my-email-adrees-sent-out-many-many-spam-emails/m-p/2916464/highlight/true#M96919 [loscassidy76]

21 September 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/My-email-account-has-been-hacked-How-do-I-change-the-password/m-p/2915089/highlight/true#M96608 [pkenyon]

21 September 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/My-email-account-is-being-used-to-send-spam/m-p/2915238/highlight/true#M96654  [la50003]

19 September 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/a-large-number-of-emails-were-sent-from-my-blueyonder-address/m-p/2914329/highlight/true#M96511  [lucycocozoe]

18 September 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Recieved-about-20-of-these-has-my-e-mail-or-system-been-hacked/m-p/2912431/highlight/true#M96124 [Shauno1234, StevePC, nolly1953, STEVE591, Vicky6, andygj, angmc, vykor, Cinnder, ...]

18 September 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/How-do-I-view-the-last-activity-on-my-email-account/m-p/2913386/highlight/true#M96336  [KarenStanley]

16 September 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email/email-hacked/m-p/2911593/highlight/true#M95963 [Hobbes1218, vykor, katebey, LobusWobbles, foj, JCMacc, strafft, spoofissue, Blenky]

16 September 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/blueyonder-email-hacked/m-p/2911548 [SOUNDMAN50]

15 September 2015: https://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Why-am-I-getting-so-many-mailer-daemon-virginmedia-com-emails/td-p/2911105 [sadielouise]

13 September 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Spam-from-my-e-mail-address-sent-to-my-contacts/m-p/2909598/highlight/true#M95654 [Wezzo]

22 August 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email/Virgin-Email-Accounts-compromised-official-response/m-p/2894606/highlight/true#M93681 [deepbeep, bluegrunt, me_54m, andy1811, krissypsyllides, PB_1982, katebey, simonjbaker, shailesh1]

19 August 2015: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email-Cloud-and-webspace/Bad-Spam-Email-Received/td-p/2888633/highlight/true/page/3 [only the report from Droid]

13 March 2013: https://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Forum-Archive/Emai-HIJACKED-Please-Help/m-p/1091159/highlight/true#M508836

15 February 2012: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Forum-Archive/Email-account-hijacking-update/td-p/1039555








2 comments:

  1. Number of VM customers with at least one email account = 5.2 million approx. Number of people complaining that VM has been hacked = 2 to 3 hundred. Do the maths and you don't need to be an expert in probability theory to conclude that there has not been a large-scale hack.

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    1. Indeed, what characterizes this problem is a small percentage of email account holders at any one email provider whose correspondents are receiving spoofed email. While AOL cited "about two percent" in their April 2014 episode, more recent cases seem to involve a small fraction of one percent, suggesting that affected users share some sort of behavior in common which has left them vulnerable. The obvious possibility is giving away user names and passwords in response to a phishing email. I'm not convinced that is the explanation since I've not heard of any evidence that the passwords have been used to send spam directly from the spoofed accounts, the typical consequence of falling for a phishing attack.

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