[kictanet] Has Yahoo been hacked?

[Odhiambo Washington]

@Bobby,

I don't particularly trust www.sorbs.net as a DNS Blacklist database. Yes,
that IP 77.238.189.23 belongs to Yahoo but it's listing in SORBS remains
questionable to me. It could be a false positive or a malicious listing. So
much junk mail originate from Yahoo accounts (always very vulnerable to
getting compromised) and someone might have decided to list that Yahoo IP
with sorbs blacklist service to teach them a lesson.

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 07:50, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> A few days ago I raised the fear that my posts were being censored an
> issue that was put to rest by Walu when he indicated that the Kictanet
> systems were blocking mail from Yahoo servers, I have noted the same issue
> when sending mail to various other domains from my yahoo account.
>
> Remote host said: 554 5.7.1 Service unavailable; Client host
> [77.238.189.23] blocked using dnsbl.sorbs.net; Currently Sending Spam
> See: http://www.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml?77.238.189.23 [RCPT_TO]
>
> So I ask, has Yahoo's systems finally been hacked into and could this mean
> the end of free email as we know it?
>
> Regards
>
> Robert Yawe
> KAY System Technologies Ltd
> Phoenix House, 6th Floor
> P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
> Kenya
>
> Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
>
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