Legoman
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I my case, my e-mail was not hacked directly with the e-mail provider. It was only hacked as far as I can see from the Velocity side. ie. they never found out what my e-mail password was. All they got out of Velocity was my actual e-mail address to flood it with spam, which goes to show I presume that Velocity just store member e-mail addresses unencrypted and in plain text on their servers.At least two of the posters here had their email compromised prior to the VFF hack.
You'll never be able to find out any common factor. It could be something as random and out of anyone's control such as all the affected accounts were stored on the same physical server drive in the data centre, and that specific drive is the one the hackers were able to get into before the intrusion was noticed.