Hi everyone, I've seen two obvious spam emails on two different Rootsweb lists today, where the subject line was the name of the poster, as seen in the "From" part of the email. http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/NORTHUMBRIA/2013-02/1361544154 http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/Freepages-Help/2013-02/1361525415 If you follow the links above, please take care to NOT click on the link in the posts! I'm not the list owner of either list, just a subscriber receiving the mail. Both of these posts came from Yahoo accounts, one yahoo.com and the other yahoo.ca. Recently, yahoo.co.nz was hacked, resulting in many spam emails being sent out from email accounts there, including xtra.co.nz accounts which are hosted at yahoo.co.nz Xtra is New Zealand's largest ISP, and they out-source their email service to Yahoo. It was a huge headache. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?objectid=10867160 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?objectid=10866015 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?objectid=10865900 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?objectid=10865512 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?objectid=10864681 These are just a selection of stories about the NZ hack from the country's largest newspaper to give you an idea of what happened. I'm a little concerned that a similar thing might now be happening at the yahoo.com and yahoo.ca sites, and that's going to be an even bigger headache than "little" New Zealand may have had, so I wanted to alert you to the possibility now so you can take quick action should you see it happening on one of your lists. I'm not saying it *is* happening, only that it might. I don't want to start a panic, but I do want you to be aware of the possibility so you're not scratching your head over these odd posts if they start turning up on your lists, but you're aware and ready to take action if required. I think, if this does become a problem, the best course of action would be to put your list(s) on emergency moderation as a first move. It's likely that there are hosted addresses involved (like the xtra.co.nz ones being hosted at yahoo.co.nz) that won't be obvious immediately, and this will cover all possibilities. I do hope I'm wrong, but I have a bad feeling about this. Wendy New Zealand