Gmail accounts appear to send out spam, and their owners are baffled

Something is not right in the land of Gmail. 

Numerous account holders woke up Sunday morning to discover a raft of spam emails sitting in their sent folders, and that even after changing their passwords the emails kept going out. At least some of these people, including a Mashable editor, had two-factor authentication enabled on their accounts. 

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"My email account has sent out 3 spam emails in the past hour to a list of about 10 addresses that I don’t recongnize," read an April 21 post to a Google Help Forum. "I changed my password immediately after the first one, but then it happened again 2 more times." Read more...

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