[sledge105]

Hi,

I am a new person to this forum so i hope this issue is posted in the right area.

I have a hotmail email account and have had the some one for about 10 years. I just checked my email and at the same time i was signed into my windows live messanger. I started recieving tons of emails from the postmaster delivery failure address. It even booted me out of my live messanger. I have not emailed any of the addresses they mentioned. the emails kept coming in until I killed my internet connection and and restarted it. What is really weird tho is when i restarted my email to delete the 36 postmaster messages i received, they were gone. I have since changed my password and that seems to have fixed the issue. what I am wondering, is how worried should i be that I have been hacked. is their any more steps you would recommend taking? i am quite concerned. what does this issue mean?

I hope this all made sense.

Thank so you much for any responses

Mike

[Phantom010]

In my opinion, you simply have been a victim of E-mail spoofing.

[sledge105]

do u see a reason for me to make a new account or am i ok now that i have changed my password. am i now safe? it hasnt happened since

[Phantom010]

If it is indeed e-mail spoofing, changing your password won't change a thing since it's not needed. You'll need to create a new account. If your e-mail account has been compromised, then you'll have to change your password. In that case, you may have been victim of some sort of phishing scam.

[sledge105]

well, nothing out of the ordinary has happened since i changed my password, so maybe ill hold off for a bit and see if anything happens. I kind of want to hold off on creating a new email if possible since i have tons of contacts and use the email for websites and such.

thanks for your responses