Hi

I recently got a message from a friend about an Iphone

Hey
How are you these days? I bought one apple iphone 3gs black from this website www.noisyt.com .to my surprise,it's original,but much cheaper.You can check it,Hope everything well.
Regards
Maximilien

I replied to see if it was legit - and I actually got an answer back! Could this be someone who has hacked into my friends account? Or is it actually him?

Thanks

My e-mail account was sending these out to all my contacts! And it also deleted my inbox - now I don't know what to do?! I have changed my password to strong and hopefully this is enough - any ideas??

This is happening to me also an email sends an email out to my contacts ...what do I need to do to resolve this?

I am also having the problem where every one of my contacts has received an email from me telling them to buy an iphone from noisyT.

Are there any recommendations on how to stop this from happening again? Change password?

This has happened to me too & it also deleted all my contacts. Have you had any response as to how to stop this happening?  "NoisyT" is obviously illegally hacking into peoples email, how do we report this?

Anybody get an answr about this yet.  Same thing happened to me.

Same here!

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Based on the large number of people with the same problem at the same time, I suppose that some "trusted" third-party was hacked and a database was raided that may have had your password in it.  This would be likely if you use the same password at more than one location (ie. hotmail and some online store).

Lesson - use different passwords at different web sites. Plus, change your hotmail password if you hadn't already.

Excellent advice DanH - we also have a couple of other articles about what to do to protect your safety online.

http://windowslivehelp.com/solutions/safety/archive/2009/04/29/recent-reports-of-account-hijacks.aspx

http://windowslivehelp.com/solutions/safety/archive/2008/10/24/protecting-your-identity-you-can-t-afford-to-take-the-back-seat.aspx

If you think you're account has been compromised, we also have this article:

http://windowslivehelp.com/solutions/accounts/archive/2008/10/25/what-to-do-if-you-think-your-accounts-been-stolen.aspx