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Email account hacked, phishing messages sent, traces obliterated
A very unusual case of account hacking has been reported to G Data Security Labs: the victim's Gmail account was not only hacked and used for sending spam to the addresses stored in the account – which is bad enough in itself. Settings were also changed to cover up the deed!