Email Account Attacked

[Merkava_4]

Yahoo is my email provider and I have it routed through Mac Mail. I'm getting over 200 of these failure notices everyday. Each one seems to have a different address. What can do to make it stop?

Email Spam by Merkava_4, on Flickr

 

[keysofanxiety]

Yahoo is my email provider and I have it routed through Mac Mail. I'm getting over 200 of these failure notices everyday. Each one seems to have a different address. What can do to make it stop?

Email Spam by Merkava_4, on Flickr

Change the password for your email address.

 

[Merkava_4]

Change the password for your email address.

Thank you very much. I will try that.

 

[keysofanxiety]

Thank you very much. I will try that.

Yeah that'll do the trick. Normally some bot just gains access to an account and spits out spam to everybody; pretty common thing to happen. Simply changing the password will revoke access.

If there's anything similar to two-step verification on Yahoo mail, I'd recommend enabling that too.