Email accts hacked into on my apple devices

Question

I recently received messages from several people in my Comcast contacts saying they received bogus messages from my comcast email address (I never use that email account).  I only have Apple devices.  I know enough to be dangerous, and I don't understand how all this works.  I thought I wouldn't have problems like that with Apple devices.  I have since closed my Comcast email account that I never used anyway.  Does this sound like something the Heartbleed worm caused?  I just don't get it. 
   Thanks for any explanation or help anyone can give me.

Answer 1

Comcast has apparently not publicly stated whether their site was vulnerable to the Heartbleed flaw or not. They aren't listed on any of the sites that track such things, so I can't say definitively that your problem is due to Heartbleed, nor is there any way that we will ever know that to have been the case. It is something that Comcast would have to fix and if they did they won't know if they were attacked while vulnerable or not.
In any case, babowa is almost certainly correct that there is nothing more you need to do now that the account has been closed, unless you use that same password for multiple accounts. If that's the case, you need to start using unique passwords for every site you use.