Telecom New Zealand admits YahooXtra email accounts were hacked

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Telecom has admitted its outsourced YahooXtra email service has been compromised by hackers resulting in some YahooXtra customer accounts being hijacked to send out malicious email. It is advising all YahooXtra customers to change their passwords.

The company initially blamed a deluge of compromised accounts on a successful phishing attack, saying customers were tricked into clicking on scam emails, but has now acknowledged a “second attack” that was outside customers’ control.

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