Yahoo leaked customers' e-mail addresses?

[bcc1234]

I started getting spam to a couple of my e-mail aliases that I used to sign up to Overture.

They are both in a form of [e-mail] (two different accounts), so it's pretty hard to guess for a spammer who is simply trying all combinations like info@ help@ john@ mike@ etc.

I'm really puzzled by this.

[bigdealioo]

yep, me too. prolly a rogue employee. happens fairly often.

[adessa]

Nope, it is not Yahoo that leaks email. Few months ago, I posted in messageboard in a popular website with my email and after that hundreds of unsolicited emails are coming to my inbox.

It seems that the origins of the mails are using email extractor.

[bcc1234]

It seems that the origins of the mails are using email extractor.

That's not the case here. I never used those addresses anywhere else.