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		alyandon on Dec 15, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts As far as I can tell it wasn't someone spoofing my email address. Emails were sent to people on my contact list and the numerous bounce messages to contacts that no longer had valid email addresses confirmed the origin of the traffic.

Buge on Dec 15, 2016 [–]

It's possible that a contact of yours was compromised, and that contact had many contacts in common with you. And then they spoofed your address.

alyandon on Dec 15, 2016 | [–]

That's a good theory but in my case the sets of common contacts would be almost nil for that account.

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