My Iphone contact list was used to send Spam

My yahoo e-mail was recently used to send Spam to everyone in my Iphone conact list that has an e-mail address associated with it. I do not use my yahoo account on a PC just on my Iphone. My phone contact list is not synced to a PC and I don't send emails from my personal email to co-workers and they recieved the Spam from my Yahoo account. Has the Iphone finally been hacked? How can I prevent it.I will change my Passwords but how did it send from my Iphone contact list. The e-mail that was sent is not in my sent or deleted folder. was sent on Friday at 11:15 at night while I was asleep and phone was charging.

It was your Yahoo email account that was hacked, which is why the spam was sent from your account, or  more lilely spoofed to appear to be from your account (actually sent from the spammer's email).  This is common with Yahoo email which has been easily hacked.  If you ever sent any emails to the people who received the spam, their email address's are easily found by the hackers.
As far as your Contact list on your iPhone, the only way it can be hacked into is if the phone was ever jailbroken.  OTOH, if you sync your contacts with social media like Fakebook and Twits,  your contacts are long in the wild.

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