What to do if your email is hacked by spammers

[Kimby]

ask-leo.com/email_hacked_7_things_you_need_to_do_now.html?awt_l=LsyQl&awt_m=IpQb_Y4dfZdfbL

This article is quite good. I don't know if it is overkill, but seems like good advice.

Having gotten two spams from hacked friends' accounts this week, it seems there's a lot of this going around lately.

[hwinpp]

They never change the alternative address. Go to Yahoo or Gmail or Hotmail, ask them to send a new password to your alternative address, kick out the hackers, change your password again. I've done it twice with my Yahoo account.

[Kimby]

Our AOL account got hacked recently and was used to send spam - not to OUR contacts but to a seemingly random list of names that started with R, then with S in another email, then with T in a third. Most of the intended recipients apparently did not exist, as we got multiple messages from the Mailer Daemon. AOL discovered this hacking before we did and shut down (suspended) our account to stop it until we could change our password.

Say what you will about AOL, but we rarely have spam penetrate into our inbox, and they did stop our account from being used to send spam. All better now.

[Deleted]

Several years ago I found myself sending spam to myself, but it did not last very long. Since it was a major problem for lots of people, the service providers clearly found ways to stop it.