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BT drops Yahoo as email provider following claims of hacking

article published on 1 June, 2013

ISP BT will be moving all of its customers from Yahoo! after a decade of service following relentless claims of hacking and account abuse. Customers have claimed that hackers have repeatedly taken control of their accounts and used them to send mass spam emails. BT says now the accounts will begin to migrate within weeks and that the new system will "feature in-built anti-virus and ... [ read the full article ]

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Interestx
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_ 		2. June 2013 @ 11:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Nice, all this just days before I finally go fibre with BT
(76mb down 19mb up, Infinity 2).
Happy days.
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megadunderhead
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_ 		2. June 2013 @ 18:15 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Actually i find this funny because most spam is not comming from hacked accounts but peoples horney kids accessing porn sites which get the information from the web browsers cache settings
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ddp
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_ 		2. June 2013 @ 18:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
don't know about that as i have a few customers & a friend using rogers as their provider who uses yahoo & i've got weird email from them even tho they did not send it. 1 customer is even getting replies from email he did 2+ years ago now & it is not in his sent items in outlook. he is talking to rogers about that plus why the long delay in email sent to his wife in the same house but different computer.
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