Simon,
All things are possible! But I got false emails from people I had
not corresponded with for years - I had to search my archives to find
out who they were. So keystroke pinching would seem unlikely -
unless it mined their archives if they had them.
At 12:29 AM 2/12/2012, Simon Matthews wrote:
>On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Barrie Robinson
><<mailto:barrie@look.ca>barrie@look.ca> wrote:
>Both Gmail and hotmail have been breached. I have had phony emails
>from someone who used their address books from these "cloud"
>services. Now it looks like Yahoo has been breached. This is the
>danger of using "cloud" services! Your PC is big enough to keep
>YOUR data on YOUR site - so why risk using Yahoo, Gmail et al??
>
>
>While I would not rule out the possibility that gmail and hotmail
>have been hacked, a much more likely explanation is that a
>virus/keylogger install on millions of PCs has stolen the login
>credentials of the users of those PCs. Most likely it is users' PCs
>where the "breach" occurred.
>
>Why risk storing the information on your local PC?
>
>Simon
Regards
Barrie
barrie@look.ca
(705) 721-9060
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