[NTLUG:Discuss] Security question

[Fred]

I am really confused about something that just happened here.
I had my Yahoo mail open as well as a webmail page for my
business email, hosted by HostGator. The Yahoo mail stopped
for a couple of minutes, gave me a time out error, said try again
and when it finally started working, lo and behold there, in a
brand new folder in my Yahoo mail are copies of each of my
emails from my business inbox.

WTF? My first reaction was to think that somehow HostGator 

had entered into some unholy alliance with Yahoo. I still am
leaning that way because I cannot see how anything on this end 

would have been able to do that. Besides, doesn't malware just 

steal the info and send it off somewhere? It wouldn't build a new
inbox folder and put the files in there, all nice and neat. I really
don't understand this one at all.


Any ideas, insight, etc?

Fred