In the prior century my dial-up Internet access was provided by an ISP that was eventually assimilated into EarthLink. When I upgraded to cable broadband, a co-operative arrangement between EarthLink and the cable company let me keep my EarthLink account and email addresses. Billing is done by the cable company so I have not had any contact with EarthLink in roughly a decade.

A few days ago, they send me an email:

Dear EarthLink Subscriber,
When you recently contacted EarthLink Support, an EarthLink representative viewed or changed your password in order to assist you. If you or someone on your behalf did not contact EarthLink for [my email address], please change your password immediately …
Sincerely,
EarthLink Support

Since I had not been in contact with them, I checked the email headers to see if this was a phishing scam, but the message seemed to come from EarthLink. And the links were legit, they actually pointed to EarthLink.com. Assuming they were scammed somehow, I changed all my EarthLink passwords.

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