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Re:Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts by Buge on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @10:55PM (#13182261)
It's possible that a contact of yours was compromised, and that contact had many contacts in common with you. And then they spoofed your address.
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Re:Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts by alyandon on Thursday December 15, 2016 @09:54AM (#13184939)
That's a good theory but in my case the sets of common contacts would be almost nil for that account.
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