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Re:My account is sending spam emails by laurencei on Sunday April 22, 2018 @02:36AM (#16894991)
The strange thing is the article is a year old? Why would it suddently be exploited now? I find it difficult to believe no one's tried until today?
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Re:My account is sending spam emails by freeflight on Sunday April 22, 2018 @07:40AM (#16895740)
It's probably been exploited for quite a while already, takes a certain time and threshold until these kinds of things fully bubble up to the public.

People who've been affected might not have noticed or cared enough to say/do something.

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Re:My account is sending spam emails by stephengillie on Sunday April 22, 2018 @03:00AM (#16895047)
Maybe some dark-hat's side project finally reached a major milestone and was released?
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Re:My account is sending spam emails by jlgaddis on Sunday April 22, 2018 @03:27AM (#16895121)
No idea.

Apparently someone just found out about it and decided to try it out -- it's obviously "new" to a lot of HN'ers as well.

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