Contacts stolen in a mysterious way and spam mailing with my email account

It's strange. I have contacts stored locally on my iMac and to some of my contacts I only use a certain Email account. And then I also have one fake email address which I use for registering on newsletters and all the other stuff where I think I shouldn't use my real data. Well and here the strange thing: Someone hacked into that fake account and sent emails out to all my contacts, which I only store locally on the computer, not online. And there is absolutely no link between my fake account and my contacts. I've never used this account for messaging/communication or similar. So how is this even possible? And I the hacker also only sent out mails to close friends and business colleagues, though I have various kinds of contacts like business partners and so on in my contacts.
The emails were actually sent from within the fake account (online access) as I can find the spam emails in the sent folder.
Some facts on my side: I use an iMac and manage all my accounts with the mail app, also the fake account. However, I don't mix up things, for example, I have only one account for communication with friends, one for business purposes and this fake thing.

to begin with I would suggest you change the password on your "Fake Account", secondly remove the smtp settings so that you and the hacker cannot send any emails from that account anymore. Or delete it altogether and make a new Fake Account with a different name and password, and receive your newsletters there (you have to change your profile with the newsletters providers).

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