M of mione is BT everything excepot a domain I set up for him and his
> professional website.
> His BT I-phone got 'found' and returned to the police...
> ...3 days later his BT email account was hacked and used to send
> hundreds of 'help I'm stranded in russia send me money' emails
> His spam file filled up with bounces from people who were no longer on
> the addresses in his address book.
> the reply-to: was set to a very similar looking email address to his
> name, on outlook.com
> He changed his BT password, but BT seem to have essentially suspended
> that email account. You could log into it, but it wouldn't send or
> receive emails although no errors were reported.
> Afer about 15 hours fighting BT support, I took over and spent all
> afternoon testing it and giving a resasonable report to the usual > bombayDroid .
> It now sends, but isn't receiving.
> I mention this because a lot of people think that a BT all in one
> account is just what they need, and the I-phone comes cheap.
You have a very odd idea of hacking, if the account was accessed via a stolen or lost phone on that account. It is up to the individual to protect their phone from use by others in event of it being stolen, etc.