I’ve heard of 5 people whose email has been hacked in the last couple of days. BT and Yahoo . Is there something going on with Yahoo that anyone is aware of?

… to answer my own Q

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/epic/btdota/10089355/BT-dumps-Yahoo-email-after-hacking-claims.html

Mine too, yesterday. BT “help” desk say it’s my fault for clicking on an infected message, which immediately sends out messages to my whole address book. Not true: I started getting emails from myself to my phone whilst the computer was off, and they are only addressed to contacts stored online by BT Yahoo. I think their server has been hacked.

Likewise, my yahoo was hacked yesterday too. Full password changes & full pc scan later, it’s a proper pain!

My yahoo was used to send spam yesterday. Account is now deleted.

Had the same thing a few months ago with a BT Yahoo account.

Found the below thread and it appears to be widespread.

http://community.bt.com/t5/Other-BB-Queries/BT-email-accounts-hacked/td-p/796762

According to the above if you check the activity on the account you’ll probably find a yahoo mobile login from outside your usual usage (mine was India) which is apparently how access has been gained.