Why is there so much spam coming from Yahoo! Mail accounts?

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In the last 1-2 months, I have received spam from at least 3 or 4 friends I know with Yahoo! Mail accounts. It seems there's some systemic problem there, but I don't know what it is. Were Yahoo! Mail account passwords compromised en masse?

Dan

Posted 2012-11-13T16:27:58.523

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Question was closed 2012-11-13T18:16:32.783

Are these genuine mails sent via Yahoo or merely random mails with an appropriate From: header? – Claudius – 2012-11-13T16:53:46.473

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Where Yahoo! mail account passwords compromised en masse?

Yes.

You should be able to check if an email account was compromised in that attack, via the Sucuri website.

PenguinCoder

Posted 2012-11-13T16:27:58.523

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Thanks. Two that I just checked were not in that leak. Must be some other reason. – Dan – 2012-11-13T16:37:55.780

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