@cwmkwrote:
Thank you Andy. I have changed the password, but the worrying thing is that I only spotted the problem once I received the failed delivery messages, which is a bit like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted (and emails sent to me are no longer getting through to the forwarded email address).
Is there any way of knowing how long this forwarding address had been set up for? In other words, how long might someone (e.g. Freddy Fraudster) have had access to all my emails?
I would have thought it would be sensible for the system to send a message, if a new forwarding address is set up on any account, or perhaps a text to the registered phone number??
There is virtually no way of knowing when it was set up, unless you can recall when you suddenly didn't receive any emails.
I agree with the other point about sending a message to a registered phone number if the forwarding is set up. It's nearly always the other way around only - in that if a forwarding address is setup, that address has to acknowledge that it's valid.
You can see why, since the expectation is that the original address has been logged in correctly - and assumed to be by the correct owner. Some systems do send notifications that a change has been made to the original account.
