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I'm surprised that nobody but one of the hosts has taken the time to answer you. Not my area of expertise, but I'll give you some ideas.

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  1. Jul 14, 2018  Why Scammers Want Cryptocurrency. This type of scam has a lot in common with ransomware like CryptoLocker. Like ransomware, CryptoBlackmail makes a threat and demands payment to a cryptocurrency address. But, while ransomware actually holds your files hostage after compromising your computer, CryptoBlackmail is all empty threats.
  2. Oct 17, 2018  The latest email phishing scam campaign claims that your email was hacked by someone who calls themselves ingram78 more than six months ago. The email message insists that you pay them $892 (or other amount) in Bitcoin or they will send your files, history of sites you visit, and other information to everyone you have contacted.
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  4. Oct 19, 2012  I think my mail program/mac.com email account has been hacked. I am recieving around 10 postmaster notifications every day that emails are returned undeliverable - but they are emails I never sent and are not in my sent itmes (or on iCloud). I have changed my password for my mac account, changed it for my computer, and have run a ClamXav scan.


I've never run across any case of the Apple Mail application being used in this way without physical access to your computer over by controlling it remotely over a network. All a spammer really needs is your e-mail address (which I suppose is what the host removed for you) and he can send tons of e-mail out that appears to come from you, some of which doesn't go through and is bounced back to you.


The second biggest way this happens, as you have guessed, is to hack your e-mail account by guessing the password and using that to send spam. Depending on what your preferences are set to, you may be able to tell if this was done if the outgoing messages appear in your 'Sent' folder. If you find such messages, you can be assured that they were sent using your e-mail account in some manner. If there you do save sent messages and there is no sign of them, then they are just using your e-mail address.

Aug 24, 2012 5:00 PM

Microsoft email accounts hijacked last month are being used by criminals to steal cryptocurrency.

Motherboard reported attacks on Microsoft emails earlier in April that allowed hackers to read users’ content. It found several victims this week who said that the attackers had used their email to compromise their cryptocurrency exchange accounts and empty their funds.

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One such victim, Jevon Ritmeester, claims to have lost just over one bitcoin as a result of the hack after its perpetrators compromised his account at cryptocurrency exchange Kraken.

Posting in the Tweakers technology forum last week, Ritmeester said:

On 08-04 I wanted to see the status of my cryptos. I don’t watch Kraken.com every day, sometimes I don’t even look for months. [Text translated]

When he checked his account, he found that his Kraken password no longer worked, and saw no emails in his Outlook inbox. He only found the telltale password reset emails when he looked in his trash folder.

The criminals had requested a password reset and then hidden the confirmation emails from him by creating an email processing rule. If the rule found specific text in incoming emails, it would forward them to the attackers’ address before deleting it from the local mailbox. That allowed the criminals to reset Ritmeester’s password and empty his account.

Other users on Reddit claimed that the same thing had happened to them. One, Jefferson1337, said that they had lost about $5,000 in cryptocurrency.

Earlier last month, Microsoft confirmed to TechCrunch that some email accounts had been compromised after hackers accessed one of its customer support accounts. According to reports, the hackers could access any email account as long as it wasn’t a corporate-level one.

The software giant had noticed the attack of the end of March. The compromise enabled the criminals to access the content of some Outlook, Hotmail, or MSN accounts.

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Several victims, including Ritmeester, suggested that legal action might be appropriate against Microsoft given the financial losses.

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Reddit user shinratechlabs said:

For real do I have recourse against Microsoft? I am sure I am not the only one. Crypto users were targeted.

The take away for Naked Security readers is that it is better to rely on multiple forms of protection to secure your online accounts.

Ritmeester used strong, unique passwords which he kept in a password manager, but he didn’t use the 2FA protection that Kraken supports. This left him open to an email hack that was outside his control. He said:

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Unfortunately I didn’t have 2FA on Kraken.com because I was under the assumption that all my accounts were well protected by unique and long passwords. I still think this is true, but this Microsoft leak came from within. It is an expensive but wise lesson that despite good passwords, 2FA is the only way to properly secure your accounts. [Text translated]

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For cryptocurrency users in particular, another takeaway is that leaving funds unmonitored for a long time in an exchange account as opposed to a secure wallet increases your attack surface, making you vulnerable to account hacks.