hacked email...

[joko]

i have just opened my email - and as usual there was a load of stuff from sites im a memmber of etc and i didnt open them... then i went off for an hour..went back and a number of them have been read ... then a few minutes later another one went 'read' ...
i am thinking someone else is readig my mail just as i am!

i changed my pw and a site called http://www.trueswitch.com ... as having had access to all my yahoo account.. i looked and it seems to be a mail forwarding company!!

now normally in this circumstance your frst suspicion would be your partner - they would have most reason to snoop - however my boyf not only has no computer he would not have the slightest idea how to do anything like this - he cannot use them. doesnt have a facebook etc and i have to set up anything online for him, so pretty sure its not him.

is this something random? done by scammers do get into your emails and look for bank info etc?

the emails they were looking at were mostly bumpf and unimportant...

or is there some other way i could have accidentally opened them?

its all a bit odd
thanks

[joko]

just noticed they've read half the spam emails too!

what could this be?

is this because they are being sent to my new phone? but wouldnt that make them all appear read?

[wildwood]

You must have a very smart mouse!

Really, before the techies come on, could you state which email client you use or is this webmail.

[squarebear]

Have you entered your password on a site such as this one:
http://www.square-bear.co.uk/mitsuku/msn.htm

[boxtops]

this is scary

[Huderon]

Some social networking type sites give you an option to tell them your email address and password so that you can "check" if anyone you already know is on the site. They will then log into your email account and sent an invite to all of your contacts.

If you signed up for a site like that, and gave them your email password, it could be an automated process, with the site going through all of your emails (including the stuff in the spam folder) to extract addresses to send the invites to.

[boxtops]

that's even more scary, you shouldn't give your password to anybody!

[Huderon]

Oh, just had another thought - just in case your machine has been infected by something, do a full scan using your anti-virus and anti-malware programs.

boxtops, you'd be surprised just how daft people can be when they are on line. I've had numerous emails purporting to be from (usually) sensible people I know inviting me to sign up to some social networking site or other, and all of them come to an email address I only ever give out to friends.

[woofgang]

Yup, that's happened to me too.

[woofgang]

not the giving the email addy, the getting invites bit.

[vivandorron]

One must be extremely selective when it's a question of disclosing one's E/mail address. But even more important is, as indicated by boxtops.... Keep passwords secret at all times.

Ron.