Usually, receiving an email from an AOL(s AOL) email address with a cryptic subject like “Hi” or “Fw: news” wouldn’t be too much of a concern, but you might want to not click on those links: there are multiple reports out Monday that old AOL accounts have been compromised and are sending out phishing spam.

Affected users are airing their complaints on the #aolhacked hashtag on Twitter. One user is complaining that phishing emails were sent to every single one of his 2,200 contacts. Some are simply seeing the phishing emails from others and tweeting about it. There are twousers who are complaining that changing passwords and security questions are not stopping the rivers of spam coming from their accounts. Several affected users are longtime AOL subscribers with decades-old accounts.

I’ve received a few of the emails in question, and they generally look like this with a few different permutations:

From:XXXXXXXXXXX@aol.com
Date: Sun, Apr…