Getting delivery failure emails for messages I never sent

My inbox is filling up with Mail Delivery Subsystem bounces for emails I never sent, to addresses I don't recognise. The sent folder is empty. Has my account been hacked, or is someone faking my address?
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inshya_gadget Oct 23, 2026
dan_gadget
Open one of the bounces and look at the copy of the original message attached to it. Most of the time it's backscatter - a spammer forged your address as the sender, the receiving server rejected it and bounced it back to you. Annoying but harmless, and there's not much you can do except wait it out. If the message is also sitting in your own Sent folder though, that's a different story: someone is in the account. Change the password, turn on 2-step, and check filters and forwarding rules for anything you didn't add.