Has my friend's iChat account been hacked? Has mine?

I have been using iChat with an AIM account with iChat for years and have never seen anything like this.
I just received a chat message in iChat from somebody on my buddy list - but it wasn't my buddy. It was somebody wanting me to join a sex web cam site.
Has my friend's iChat-or-AIM account been hacked? Has mine?
Is there a way of reporting it? I don't know if he uses an Apple account or an AIM account. Either are possible with iChat.
I couldn't find a way of reporting the abuse on the AOL site. All their contact forms and phone numbers are for paying AOL members only, and I was unable to post in their forums. In the meantime, I set my iChat privacy levels to only allow buddies to access and removed my friend from my buddy list.
Advice is welcome.
Thanks,
doug

Hi,
You should know who is contacting you fro the Chat Window itself.
It's title will either be the Screen Name of the Contact or the Real Name if they are in your Address Book.
Either way the Screen Name will also shows as the Grey text info at the top of e Chat Area.
The Apple IDs ending in @mac.com and @me.com (from MobileMe) are valid AIM names.
You can see the Screen Name of someone in your Buddy List by mousing and holding over their Entry.
This may display two or more names if you have them listed on their Address Book Entry.
They should change their Password, either at AIM if it is an AIM Name or via iForgot for Apple ones.
Then change it in iChat so it will then log in
Next, no matter what sort of AIM valid name it is they should go here and Log in.
Next they could use the Lifestream option and set the Privacy Level they want.
Repeat for the Actual Privacy setting.
It used to be possible to Create a Display Name in the Registration Process (It was a one page deal where you could see it)
The current Process for Registration is a step based process and I have not created a new name to follow it through to see if Display Names are allowed.
However it still appears in those AIM Settings
Choose Manage Account > Click the Edit Button (You will be asked a security Question)
At the new page choose the Greetings option far right.
Another new screen has a drop down to alter the Display Name.
This means that someone could have search Lifestyles and then used a new Screen Name and added a Display Name that at first glance Looks like your Buddy.
I doubt that they have been Hacked as such.
It is more likely the DIsplay Name method has been used.
There is one other option.
If they have used Mac in a public place and entered their Screen Name in to iChat there And their Password the computer will remember the password to the Keychain.
Even if the iChat Account is deleted from iChat the Keychain will still have the details and anyone with access can find out the Password.
(if you don't enter the password iChat will pop up a separate request each time you try and login)
If this is the case then changing the password should help
You/he can also go to IChat > Preferences > Accounts and deselect the option for Multiple Logins.
If another computer (Or app) is logged in when you next start up iChat you will get a Text chat from AIMSysMessage (An automated response from the AIM servers) asking if you want to Log the other login out. Reply with a 1 (type just the 1 and hit enter) will log the other instance out.
I spent some time searching the AIM/AOL help pages and using Google to see if I could find anything but only came across prompts on how to do it on the AIM for PC app.
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