Aol acts to stop spoofed emails amid Mail hack

In wake of the recent Aol Mail hack, which reportedly compromised users' address books, the company has announced a line of code that will help other mail providers reject email messages sent from spoofed Aol email accounts.

According to TC, like Yahoo earlier this month, Aol changed its DMARC policy to reject, putting a line of text in its DNS record telling mailbox providers to reject Aol mail if it didn't come from an Aol server.

Along with stopping emails sent from spoofed accounts, it will also impact bulk emails that would have been authorized otherwise.

Sources close to the company believe that while less than 1 percent of all Aol Mail users were affected by this security breach, that 1 percent was a vocal minority as the hashtag #aolhack is still going strong with users still reporting spoofing issues, the report added.