Many of you were surprised and alarmed last week to receive a message from a Senegalese spammer via Write Out Loud. The spammer had created two new profiles within our set-up before getting to work in sending out bogus emails. As Winston told you last week, those profiles have now been deleted.

But you’re right to be concerned – and so are we. While it’s difficult to prevent such attacks from time to time, particularly within a relatively small admin set-up such as ours, we take them extremely seriously. This is just to let you know we are working on it, and looking at various increased security options. We’re on the case!