I've been hacked!

[Polly1958]

I have just seen that my email address has been hacked into, and a message sent to all my contacts.What should I do?I suppose change my password would be the first thing, should I change my email address too?
Many thanks for any advice.

[VHG]

Keep your email address, but always use a UNIQUE password for your email address and make it different from one that you use to register for web sites.

One of the problems nowadays is that when we register for web sites we often use the same email/password combination to register for the web sites that you use to logon to your email system.

So on a dodgy web site you are "giving away" your email address and password combination so anyone can steal it and log on to your email system.

[Polly1958]

Ok, thanks for that VHG,it's a shame these people haven't got anything better to do.

[Old_Geezer]

You sure it is your account that has been hacked. If someone knows your e-mail address could they not spoof it in some way when sending out e-mail from elsewhere ?