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#14500 email address for admintools notifications

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Latest post by nicholas on Saturday, 29 December 2012 07:14 CST

Saturday, 29 December 2012 05:33 CST

amorim

Hi Nicholas,

I created a unique email address for receiving notifications from the firewall: in the cases of security exceptions, IP blocking, and backend login. I don't use this address for anything else. I don't send email, only receive from the websites.

Today I got span mail sent to this address! Could it be that one of my Joomla installations has been hacked?  Or was the traffic from my email provider somehow compromised? How do you see this? Any plausible explanation? How should I proceed?

Thanks.

Saturday, 29 December 2012 05:50 CST

nicholas

It is also possible that your email address was guessed correctly. Some (older) mail servers also end up delivering email to all accounts on a system under certain circumstances. I have an email account which I set up but never used. After a few years of lying dormant, it started receiving spam. Well, what can I say?

That said, there are other plausible expalantions, from your email traffic being intercepted to being hacked. But I seriously doubt that any serious hacker would compromise your site only to collect an one-off email address and send you spam. Spam is paid per click. It would take hundreds of thousands of clicks from you to make worth his while.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Saturday, 29 December 2012 07:13 CST

amorim

Thank you.

(And happy New Year, by the way!)

Saturday, 29 December 2012 07:14 CST

nicholas

You're welcome and Happy New Year :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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