AOL hack causes zombie spam
"NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Whether or not you use AOL, a recently exposed
mass hack of the company's network promises trouble for everybody.
AOL
users: Hackers stole "a significant number" of email addresses,
passwords, contact lists, postal addresses and answers to security
questions, the company said in a blog post Monday. Anyone of the
company's 120 million account holders might be affected. Judging by
AOL's description of the incident, that total number could well be in
the tens of millions. But
AOL isn't giving any details about the
incident for now.
Non-AOL users: Watch out for spam that looks like it came from you or your friends'
AOL accounts."
Sources:
WPTV 5
http://www.wptv.com/news/science-tech/aol-email-spoofing-hack-causes-causes-zombie-spam
CNN
http://money.cnn.com/2014/04/29/technology/security/aol-hack-spam/index.html?hpt=hp_t3