My address book has been infiltrated and emails sent

I have an intel imac running on Snow Leopard. My address book has been infiltrated and emails sent without my knowledge. What can I do?

What leads you to believe this is happening?
If the indication of that is auto-messages indicating undeliverable email, messages you did not send, then you may be a victim of Sppfing instead.
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My email account has been hacked and my address book has been used to send unsolicitated emails to all my contacts, how can I stop this activity

My email account has been hacked and my address book has been used to send unsolicitated emails to all my contacts.

First of all
Run windows in safe mode (with network) and change your password on your email account.
Then
run several anti-malware programs (there are many free ones, but not all are trustworthy)
Malwarebyte >> http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
Microsoft Safety Scanner >> http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx
Windows Defender >> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/using-defender
Spybot >> http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
Kasperky >> http://www.kaspersky.com/security-scan
Rootkit scanner TDSS-Killer >> http://support.kaspersky.com/5350
And when all is clean, change password for your email account again.

My email address book has been hacked, how do I change my password on an hotmail account.?

My email address book has been hacked, need a new passwork for my hotmail account. How is it done?

Go here > Forgotten password and other sign-in problems - Windows Help
Then click: I think I've been hacked

My Address Book has been emptied of addresses, both personal and group. How can I get them back? Is it because of the IDN update?

When I go in address book, then on either or personal or group, nothing desirable happens. Under 'group' my name appears broken seemingly into columns, as well as my user name, and my email addy for my gmail account. Funny about that gmail name, as I have never intentionally linked it to my tbird account. Please help this old granny, it is driving me insane. Not to mention that i've written this mozilla support bit at least 5 times and something wipes it out before I can submit it.

What happened when this change occurred? What is an "IDN update"?
Can you provide a screenshot (suitably obfuscated) to demonstrate the "my name appears broken seemingly into columns" effect?
I don't know of anything formally called a "group" in Thunderbird's address book, so any other words or names that appear might help here. For instance, my Address Book has mentions of Address Book Contact, Address Book and List. The "List" is perhaps the closest to the group concept used in other address book environments.
Finally, what version of Thunderbird and what OS are you usng?

ADDRESS BOOK has been deleted, erased, wiped out, completely and entirely by itself!

My Blackberry Curve 8330 was on and running normally, then I came to check the phone as I normally do, nothing out of the ordinary... except to find out that my entire address book and blackberry messenger conversations I have had were gone! Now I don't care much about the messenger conversations, I actually still have all my BBM contacts in place and that's working. I even have my photos and memo notes. My apps are still there, but my address book contacts are completely erased! Where did it go? And can I get it back?? My service provider is Sprint.

tomjs wrote:
What made Blackberry famous??
Push email technology is what made RIM famous. Anyway, that's not the point of your query here, but you asked what is push email.
tomjs wrote:
So you're saying I synced all my contacts to a portal which really does not exist, and therefore all my contats went there (which is not really there in the first place) and removed from my phone?
That was a total guess on my part... I don't know this for sure, just trying to lead you in a direction that might help. Notice I didn't even know if you had Gmail... but you did. So, I'm thinking I might be on a right track.
tomjs wrote:
Can I get my contacts back?
Hope so. Let's look at two things:
About how many contacts did you have on your device?
On your device, go to Options > Status > press the Menu key > Database Sizes. Scroll down to Address Book and do you see the Address Book data, is there any size to the numbers on the right, such as 438/89k
Or, do you only see 0/0k ? List here what you see there.
Now, open your Gmail web portal, and look at the contacts on the left side.
Do you see them all there?
1. If any post helps you please click the below the post(s) that helped you.
2. Please resolve your thread by marking the post "Solution?" which solved it for you!
3. Install free BlackBerry Protect today for backups of contacts and data.
4. Guide to Unlocking your BlackBerry & Unlock Codes
Join our BBM Channels (Beta)
BlackBerry Support Forums Channel
PIN: C0001B7B4 Display/Scan Bar Code
Knowledge Base Updates
PIN: C0005A9AA Display/Scan Bar Code

Where can I find out if my iPhoto book has been made and sent?

Also, where can I find a list of all the books I have created and ordered?

- If you previously turned on FIndMyiPod on the iPod in Settings>iCloud and wifi is on and connected go to iCloud: Find My iPhone, sign in and go to FIndMyiPhone. If the iPod has been restored it will never show up.
- You can also wipe/erase the iPod and have the iPod play a sound via iCloud.
- If not shown, then you will have to use the old fashioned way, like if you lost a wallet or purse.
- Change the passwords for all accounts used on the iPod and report to police
- There is no way to prevent someone from restoring the iPod (it erases it) using it.
- Apple will do nothing without a court order
Reporting a lost or stolen Apple product
- iOS: How to find the serial number, IMEI, MEID, CDN, and ICCID number

My Account Has Been Hacked and Email Address Changed

Hi I have logged a request for this and have received a ticket number # 03369303. The email I have received back isn't clear as to whether the issue is being dealt with or whether I have to go and find the solution myself from the support channels suggested in the email itself. Can someone clarify? Cheers Mark

Address book has disappeared... twice!

Hi there,
This has happened to me twice, both times after Thunderbird updated itself. My Address book has been stripped of any contacts that Thunderbird automatically collected since i started using it way back.
The first time it happened i had limited success with the "MoreFunctionsForAddressBook" add on but that hasn't worked this time either...
Any thoughts?

No. This one is reported occasionally, often when users are advised to copy or move a profile and then they report the address books have gone missing. In principle, an updated Thunderbird should simply refer to any existing profile and continue using it. The whole idea of the profile is to decouple the program itself from user data, so changing the program should have no impact on your stored data. That's the theory, anyway.
I've never had it happen to me and so I don't know what to do to reproduce your experience.
In your position, I'd do a search for files with a *.mab filename and see where they are. If they are present and correct in the profile, I'd look at their contents to see if they have been wiped or trashed internally.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb

I need help setting up an apple id for my sons phone. It seems his email address has been taken and/or we cant get the password.

I need help setting up an apple id for my son's phone. It seems his email address has been taken and/or we cant get the password.

Two different things
If you forgot the password
If you forgot your Apple ID password - Apple Support
If the email ID you want to use is in use by someone else - then you may need a new one
The iCloud ID's are usually unique and may be of help if you set one up

My apple id has been disabled and all my apple acct info has been changed to someone elses info, only my email address is the same

My apple id has been disabled and all my apple acct info has been changed to someone else's info. The only thing the same is my email address and now I can't download any music from itunes. Is Apple trying to extort money from us now by forcing us to pay to use their tech reps?

You are being phished. I suggest that you immediately change your Apple ID password as it might now be compromised. Never (and I mean never) follow a link in an unsolicited email. Go directly to the Apple website to handle this.

Hey People! My apple id has been hacked and there was changed an email address for the apple id! so now i don't know which email it is! Please help!

My apple id has been hacked and there was changed an email address for the apple id! so now i don't know which email it is! Please help! There was bought for 50+ $ !

just try to make a new apple id with the same name. because the hacker change the email, so your apple id before is not active or not use.

Hi I have an old fsnet email address which has been blocked. How do I unblock it

I have an old freeserve email address which has been blocked. This has happened before and I just contacted Orange (took over Freeserve) and then it was released to e again.
How do I do that now that EE have taken over Orange.
My old email s [email protected]

It makes no diif that EE has taken oven Orange. EE still handles all the email domains back to Freeserve ones.
Are you logging in here: http://email.orange.co.uk/ ?
You need to contact EE to unblock it. There is a so-called "email" form that you can use for BB: https://explore.ee.co.uk/broadband/email-us . Also see below in my sig.

Someone keeps trying or has been using my email address to sign up for all kinds of accounts. What can I do?

I have had this email address since apple offered family accounts for me.com. For the past 4 years, someone has been using my email to sign up for accounts. They have repeatedly tried to reset my password. I keep getting emails from companies. I have been very nice and responded back to personal emails telling them that they must have typed in the wrong address. I have emailed different companies asking them to delete any and all accounts using my email address for me.com or icloud.com. This person has even been using my email to use to turn in her homework on turnitin.com. I have asked them to please alert the school to let the person know that this is not their address and please not to use it. I have recently discovered that they are trying daily to reset my password. Is there anything I can do besides changing my email?

OMG, there is someone else who is experiencing this? I swear, I have used up all patience and trying to be kind when dealing with this.
I created my primary email account [email protected] a very long time ago. Of course, it morphed into [email protected] and most recently into [email protected]. This behavior occurs with all three variations, but most often with the "@me.com" address. In trying to understand the timeline, I figured it started occurring about the time of the iOS release 5.
I get approximately 10 account creation emails a week. Mine range from harmless to education to medical to ****. At one time I was getting as many as a hundred a week! I also send very politely worded emails to the companies explaining that someone tried to sign up with one of the variations of my emails and ask them to delete any or all accounts associated with them. Unless of course, they are ones that I want to keep.
The problem with telling companies to delete the accounts is that it is now sitting out there for someone to setup the account AGAIN. I have started simply requesting a new password or password reset, change the public facing data and leave it be. This will only work with accounts that require email validation, though. I have stumbled upon accounts while trying to create my own! Again, I simply change the public facing info and password and email. It then becomes mine. I've had a couple of accounts - a Disney site - that won't reset the password or delete the accounts because I can only validate the email address and none of the other account info! Sigh.
I have worked with Apple many times, sometimes for many hours trying to resolve this issue. Apple tends to be myopic and generally sticks with "someone just mistyped the email"... but it happens much too frequently for this to be true. I know it is a popular and coveted email address and perhaps people think they can force the company to recognize it as their own. I've also had requests for the Apple accounts to be reset.
Recently had an interesting chat on Apple's Messages with an 8 year old who swears that it is her friend's iChat account. She admonished me to be nicer if I was sharing it with her friend. I couldn't make her understand that her friend was incorrect in believing it was hers.
I see that you've written your message way back in February and I see no other follow ups. Have you been successful in making this stop?

Easily remove an SMTP address that has been applied by a Email Address Policy?

Hello,
How can I remove an SMTP address that has been applied to all users mailboxes and distribution lists?
Thanks

Hi,
You can use "Email Address Policy" to manage all of the user's SMTP address.
For Exchange 2003:
How to Modify an SMTP E-Mail Address by Using Recipient Policies
For Exchange 2007:
Managing E-Mail Address Policies in Exchange Server 2007
For Exchange 2010:
Remove an E-Mail Address Policy
Hope this helps!
Thanks.
Niko Cheng
TechNet Community Support

TS1541 I tried importing email addresses from gmail and now my address book is locked up and will not work. Help please.

I tried importing email addresses from gmail and now my address book is locked up and will not work. Do I need to delete my address book software and reinstall? If so, what is the proper way to do this? New to Macbook software. I have tried several things and nothing has helped. I have backed up photos, movies, etc. My addresses are on my iphone so I can sync them later right if I loose my data?
Thanks for your time and expertise,
T.

You can probably resolve this by removing some Address Book preference files rather than deleting your Address Book application.
First turn off Synchronize in Address Book Preferences if you can.
Next restart Address Book and try to export everything to your Desktop.
I have had a play and found my Address Book preference files. In the following ~/Library is the Library within your Home folder. Any numerals may differ on your Mac. Quit Address Book before doing anything with these.
1 - Display details and things set in Address Book Preferences
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist
2 - Has no data - not sure what this does
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.abd.plist
3 - Has last sync date - may have more if I used sync
~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.AddressBook.sync.000393735c06.plist
4 - My contact details
/Library/Preferences/AddressBookMe.plist
5 - Individual addresses and groups stored as separate files within:
~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Metadata
6 - All of these addresses are are also in this single database:
~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb
If you wish to remove all addresses drag both 5 & 6 to your Desktop.
If you wish to reset preferences drag 1 your Desktop.
Removing 3 may resolve sync issues but I am unable to test this.
If you wish to reset everything drag all except 4 to your desktop.
Apple has an interesting page at: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2481
I hope this helps.

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