Stargoat's Journal: Explosion of Compromised AOL Accounts

Has anyone else seen an explosion of compromised AOL Accounts? These are in many cases accounts that have not been entered for months or years. I have seen nothing on tech news sites or on AOL itself, but this is a pattern that has been occurring for a month and more.

For example:
-----Original Message-----
From: (user name hidden)
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 10:03 AM
To: (six e-mail addresses here)
Subject: Re:

This site has almost all you need!.
http://graphique-com.fr/com.page.php?jtID=21xo0

I would encourage people to delete their old AOL accounts, but it doesn't appear to be possible.

First!

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

:-)

Actually, I haven't looked. I have to delve into some logs, to verify.

Re:

[Stargoat]

It's actually from the servers. The owners of the accounts will see the sent e-mails in their sent items folder.