Has my e-mail account been compromised?

Hi,

Something very strange is that I am seeing scam e-mails writing me things that they shouldn't even know. Now I know many people can receive spam e-mails advertising products and services, but this is not what I am talking about.

What I am talking about is, receiving an e-mail where they know, I purchased an item from a vendor(which is not a popular vendor), and then I received an e-mail from a person pretending to be from that vendor, but looking carefully I realized it was not that vendor. So this is telling me, they know I used that vendor, but how? Do they have access to my e-mail?

Is it possible for a hacker, to program a bot to detect, contents of my e-mail?

MikeGreo said:

Hi,

Something very strange is that I am seeing scam e-mails writing me things that they shouldn't even know. Now I know many people can receive spam e-mails advertising products and services, but this is not what I am talking about.

What I am talking about is, receiving an e-mail where they know, I purchased an item from a vendor(which is not a popular vendor), and then I received an e-mail from a person pretending to be from that vendor, but looking carefully I realized it was not that vendor. So this is telling me, they know I used that vendor, but how? Do they have access to my e-mail?

Is it possible for a hacker, to program a bot to detect, contents of my e-mail?

Yes. Also 3'rd party tracking cookies can reveal a lot of information about purchases and habits. Also, someone could have access to your email account. That happened to my wife. Someone had hacked her facebook account. Every time I changed her FB password, the hacker would change it again. I discovered that the hacker also had access to her email to read the 2FI code. After I locked down the email, I could lockdown FB.

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That's quite concerning. Is there a way to verify if another person is accessing my e-mail account?

MikeGreo said:

That's quite concerning. Is there a way to verify if another person is accessing my e-mail account?

You should also change the password on the email and enable 2FA if the account allows it.

I checked Attention Required! | Cloudflare, but is the password compromised there the e-mail password, or is it just a website where I created an account using the e-mail I have and a password for that website specifically? Because that might not be such a big deal, because our e-mail password is not going to be the same.

The only way they would know what my e-mail password is, would be if microsoft servers were compromised and not anything else.

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I checked Attention Required! | Cloudflare, but is the password compromised there the e-mail password, or is it just a website where I created an account using the e-mail I have and a password for that website specifically? Because that might not be such a big deal, because our e-mail password is not going to be the same.

The only way they would know what my e-mail password is, would be if microsoft servers were compromised and not anything else.