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Originally Posted by Paul M
No one (even someone who knows you e-mail username and password) can change your outlook settings, that runs on your local pc, they would have to hack into your actual pc and logon as you to do that, and anyone doing that is unlikely to waste time just messing with your outlook settings.
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People elsewhere have been telling me different scenarios that are possible, so I thought posting here would be more direct. I haven't had my ebay account hacked before, or this weird stuff with Outlook, which is happening for the first time only after the ebay hacking. When my ebay account was hacked, I was advised by ebay to change my email password, as well as ebay details. Unfortunately I delayed changing my email password, as I thought there was no way it would really be necessary to do, for the reasons you're saying. But, people can get hold of all kinds of information via emails, including links to sites that hold personal details, survey earnings etc. And I haven't received the ntl email confirming my password change, so am concerned as to where that's gone, and where my archived messages are being stored ... they're nowhere to be found.