Period. This is the second time this year I’ve had to deal with some bored sexually frustrated dullard f’baring my servers… earlier it was WordPress, which I had to secure up to the gills (hopefully!). Now it’s my email…
Today I suddenly started getting MAIL DELIVERY FAILURE NOTICE emails, initially a dozen or so… for emails I had not sent, and after reading some of the email address, to email accounts I’ve never heard of, and on reading the content… certainly with no content I’d ever send. It was all highly profane and offensive in nature.
Before I knew it, I’d got 103 email notices for emails I’d apparently sent to people whose accounts no longer exist. This means that far more had been sent to legitimate emails addresses. I shudder to think how many.
Fortunately, my domain hosts (unitedhosting.co.uk) responded within a minute of emailing my concern – they are very hot off the mark for all support calls. They checked the logs and found the password to my email account had been compromised (guessed) despite being non-obvious, mixed-case and alphanumeric – thankfully though this was easy to remedy.
So to the pathetic waste of DNA that thought spamming countless others with profane, offensive and highly inappropriate crap using my good name to do it, go $”^# yourself. No doubt I’ll be explaining & apologising to hundreds if not thousands of people should they choose to (quite rightfully) take umbrage.
One more thing on the list of ‘Too Many Things…’ only one I’d never have chosen and frankly resent having to do.
Thanks for wasting my life, and theirs.