"Tiny Tin Troops e-mail hacked" Topic

Hi Folks

Seems that we have been sending out (fake) e-mails to past customers and a few others besides. If the content is not obviously from us or refers to our products or services then please just delete them.

They do not come directly from us nor are they sourced at our host (1and1) so we can only assume that they are 'pretending' to be us from material hacked either from my computer or the host.

Passwords all now changed and what checks that I can do are done or underway.

It looks as if it was a short burst of traffic about 4am this morning followed by odd bits over the next few hours and nothing since. Lets hope that is all it will be but, if you continue to get messages from TTT that are obviously fakes then please let us know so that we can investigate further.

Sorry & Thanks

Tony of TTT

It may well be that you've not been hacked, but one of your customers or other correspondents has – a common pattern is that when someone's email (often a yahoo account – they seem to be particularly vulnerable) is hacked, the spammer then generates spoof emails purporting to be from whoever's in their address book….