Email Address Compromised

I have received "From: [email protected]
Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details" in my mail box today. The sender of the undeliverable mail is using my email address with another name apearing before. "From: Jeremy <*my address*@mac.com>". This has happened three times this morning with three different names preceeding my address. How are hackers able to send an email using my address as the sending address via .Mac? Do I need to worry, or just delete an ignore the [email protected] messages.
Thanks. Brad.

Doubtful anyone has hacked your computer or email account.
Sounds like a spammer has hijacked your email address only using it to appear as the sending email address for bulk spam mailings.
For many email accounts, there is nothing preventing someone from entering any email address in the email address field for the account preferences to appear as the sending email address for a message. Spammers use bogus email addresses to appear as the sending email address for their garbage and sometimes hijack a valid email address.
In addition to my .Mac account, I also access a POP type account provided by my ISP with Mail. Going to Mail > Preferences > Accounts under the Account Information tab for the account preferences, I can enter your email address in the Email Address field for the account preferences which will appear as the sending email address for a message sent with this email account or I can enter your email address as the Reply To email address.
Unless an ISP or email account provider prevents entering a different email address in the Email Address field when sending a message with an account they provide, there is little you can do.
I had the same occur not long ago with an old Earthlink email account. I forwarded some of the bounced messages to Earthlink. The bounced messages should contain the sender's computer IP address.
I suggest contacting .Mac with this information but other than that, there isn't much you can do.

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I am trying to change my primary address for it has been compromised. The email address I am trying to change it to is my "rescue" email address. How do I change my primary email address to my rescue email address? can I delete my rescue email address so I can use it as my primary?

You will have to delete your rescue email address first, then go back and change your primary.
Source: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5312
You can edit or delete your rescue email address at My Apple ID. To edit your rescue email address:
Navigate to My Apple ID using your web browser.
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You can't actually terminate an iCloud account, though obviously you can simply log out of it on all your devices and then ignore it in future.
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If it's this non-Apple address which is compromised then changing the ID will solve that. If it's the @icloud.com address which is compromised then you cannot change that though you can add up to three 'email aliases' - these are additional addresses (not accounts) which deliver into the same inbox as the main account. (In fact it's a good idea to give out alias addresses, rather than the main address, because if they attract spam you can easily change them.) (New aliases can only be @icloud.com ones; @me.com addresses cannot now be created.)
You should be aware before you start that once you've created an alias you cannot turn that address into a full iCloud account or move it to another account.
More information on aliases here: http://help.apple.com/icloud/#mm6b1a490a
However if you add an alias the original address will still function, so if you are getting a lot of spam it will still arrive.
You can get a completely new iCloud account simply by creating a new Apple ID at http://appleid.apple.com , for which you will need a new non-Apple address which has never been associated with an Apple ID.
You will need to sign out of the old account on all your devices and sign in with the new ID.
If none of this solves the problem and it is a security issue, go to https://getsupport.apple.com ; click 'See all products and services', then 'More Products and Services, then 'Apple ID', then 'Other Apple ID Topics' then 'Apple ID account Security'.

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Email address as a User in ADF application (part 2)

It is fairly normal these days to sign into into public-facing applications using an email address and password. However, people change email address periodically so you really want some sort of long-lived "users" entity of which the email address is an attribute that can be updated over time.
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Hi Simon,
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If you write your own login module, you can fetch the user-id from the database/directory server based on
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if the System requires ID(PK) as the primary principal, then add ID as the Subject's first Principal and later add the email,and vice versa.
You can use both at any moment in the execution cycle; howewver, when you call
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which you can easily find by little googling.
I hope this helps,
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Email address slipped.

Hello all,
I set up a separate email account for most websites I regularly visit and Apple Discussions is no different. This allows me to share the address reasonably publicly but, if spam forces it, ditch the address and start afresh. Similarly, if a bank asks for a email address from me they get theirbankname(at)mrtotes(dot)co.uk. This also alerts me to who compromised my email address to the spammers so I can duly whinge to them.
Here I use the address applediscussions(at)mrtotes co uk and I set this in My Info some time ago (18 Jun 06). Today I noticed that this address had been removed from my public profile and another email address listed for all to view. This address is one I used to use some time ago and is the one I originally signed up to Discussions with. I've now changed it back to the custom one in MyInfo; so it should replicate through in the near future.
Any reason for this slippage of email address? Has anyone else noticed this?
Thanks for your time.
mrtotes

Mark,
Thanks for the reply. I can assure you the only time I've changed my email address in My Info in recent months was to correct this error a few minutes before I posted.
I believe the system changed my address in My Info.
The desired email address has now propagated through the system and I am back in a correct state.
I actually use a different account for Apple Store/iTS etc so I'm a little baffled on this one. Still no real harm done.
mrtotes

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I DID check the statement for the credit card I use for the account and there were indeed 3 transactions I didn't recognize.
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Sign off her browswer session and click on "Forgot password click for assistance" link. Because you remember the emaiil address you used to register you can now just reset your password. When you say "don't want to loose the music I had" where are those tunes?

Bt email account compromised

Hi
My primary email address was compromised while i was away last week saying i was stuck in Ukraine and needed money to get home, i got informed by a few friends texing or phoning me up. I swapped my password and phoned up asking to see if i could get rid of my primary email account and use my secondary address as my new primary. After being left on hold for 5 minutes the lady came back and said it would be sorted in the next 24 hours, but it still has not been done 4 days later.
Is it possible to swap primary accounts? A friend replied to the hackers and has got 2 Western Union accounts to send the money to, who do i report this to?
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Regards
Simon

Stoney wrote:
Hi
My primary email address was compromised while i was away last week saying i was stuck in Ukraine and needed money to get home, i got informed by a few friends texing or phoning me up. I swapped my password and phoned up asking to see if i could get rid of my primary email account and use my secondary address as my new primary. After being left on hold for 5 minutes the lady came back and said it would be sorted in the next 24 hours, but it still has not been done 4 days later.
Is it possible to swap primary accounts? A friend replied to the hackers and has got 2 Western Union accounts to send the money to, who do i report this to?
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Regards
Simon
Hi. Welcome to the forums.
For starters, in case you've not done so already, login to webmail and remove the forwarding email address. The hackers will have set this up, so that any emails to your address will go to them.
If you're not sure where to go, it's on Mail Options/Pop & Forwarding.
Wih regard your email address being compromised, you frankly need to consider how this has happened. Have you perhaps responded to a phish email, or given away some personal info - e.g. on Facebook or other social sites.
If your friend has got those 2 WU accounts, then I would inform WU and possibly the police.
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On 16th Jan 2009 I downloaded Adobe Flash player. To do this
I was required to provide an email address. As I can't stand spam,
I bought my own domain, and never provide the same email address
twice. Different person or company, different email address
provided. Yes, it's a bit more work, but you do get to find out who
is spamming, and who is selling your email address to spammers.
Okay, so today 26th March 2009, I get an email with following
contents:
and one night she captured my soul
kuavnaibezi.com
***** couple,how spend moments together....
The email was supposedly from "Chadwick Witten", with "from"
address of "[email protected]". The site being promoted sells
viagra etc.
The email address that this spam was sent to was provided on
the adobe flash download site in a form, and nowhere else.
I expect that the above spam will also be sent to most of the
people in this forum. Now you know why it got to you.

Hate to break it to you, but that does not specifically
implicate Adobe in the leaking of that email address.
It means 1 of 2 things:
1. As you say, Adobe shares
OR
2. That form has been compromised by a hacker.
BUT
I never gave Adobe my email address to download the
flashPlayer - are you sure you were on the Adobe site and not a
mocked one?
|| EDIT ||
Just confirmed my suspiction myself. Went to
http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer
(the official page) and all that I was presented with to get the
download was a button. Click the button, the install happens - no
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