Xtra spam today?
You may have a bit of spam in your inbox this
morning. Depending on the number of Xtra / Yahoo contacts you have, it
may be quite a bit. One TradeMe trader reported
receiving "100+ emails from all xtra email addresses with varying spam"
on Saturday night. This Geekzone thread carries more details, but it seems that a problem with Yahoo! Mail that they insisted was fixed over a month ago has resurfaced. (Yahoo! host Xtra/Telecom's email from Sydney, so you may have received spam from all three sources. I have!)
This morning the NBR are reporting that the problem has (once again?) been fixed and that, accordiing to a Telecom spokesman, "Telecom has no way of knowing exactly how many customers were affected."
Telecom customers are urged to change their passwords and can do so securely from here: https://selfservice.xtra.co.nz/live/selfservice/ChgPwd/
Other useful links:
Spam in Yahoo!New Zealand webmail
How do I fight Spam with Yahoo!New Zealand Mail?
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Comments
Your link to change the password works perfectly. We received our first bogus message on our Ipad. That message was opened before we realised it was malicious. However, fortunately, our Ipad contains no email addresses as it is not used for email. The message was then deleted from the Ipad. Next, I opened each of our Linux machines in turn and deleted the message unopened.Therefore, the spam couldn't access our Thunderbird address books Then, I changed the password using your link. Now, while some Windows users are blocked out, we still have full access to our email account on the Linux machines.
Using PCLinuxOS 2013 (LXDE on laptop: KDE on desktop)
Posted by: Jim | February 18, 2013 9:59 AM