HT4864 I just received spam from myself addressed to myself and other @me users. Is Apple aware of this and has their server at iCloud been hacked?

Question

This was the e-mail I received:
Environmental company currently looking for partners from all over the world.
Commission of 5 percent on 200K USD monthly turnover derivedfrom sales of intellectual property products on the internetFeatures required:- Company ownership- Timely performance of all tasks- Continuous availability for Email, Skype and telephone feedbackConsidering your interest, please furnish us with the following:-  Full Name-  Age-  Location-  Telephone-  EmailPlease reply to: Kind Regards,Marketing, Liaison and HR Department
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Answer 1

Firstly, it's a really bad idea to post your email address (or anyone else's) - it's an invitation to even more spam - and I've asked the Hosts to remove them.
When people receive emails which appear to come from their own address but they haven't sent they naturally tend to be concerned: however it's most unlikely that anyone has hacked their account, they've just been targeted by one of two common spammers' techniques: both arise because it's all too easy to forge the 'from' address on messages to be something other than the real one.
There are two things that can happen. One is that the sender has forged the 'from' address to be the same as the 'to' address (so other people will see it coming from themselves, not you), presumably in the hope of confusing spam filters. It's harmless, if extremely annoying. Delete it (never ever answer spam or try to unsubscribe from it), and you don't need to be worried about it.
The other problem is that a spammer is forging your address as the 'from' address on a whole batch of messages. Usually the first thing you hear about this is when you start getting bounce messages because the spam has been sent to non-existent addresses and is being bounced to you. In this case it looks as if this is what has happened but you've also got onto their mailing list so you're getting it directly.
There's no point at all in responding to it. It's infuriating but normally stops after a bit as they move on to another forged address.
There isn't really anything you can do about it: closing the account isn't really worth the hassle unless you are totally swamped, because you will have to tell everyone your new address. Apple can't really do any more than they already are about spam.