What do I do when a spammer has used my email to send out to my contacts?

Ginger J: What do I do when a spammer has used my email to send out to my contacts?
An email was sent out from my email account except I don’t see it on my sent emails. It was sent with my email address.

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Answer by Legend Lady*
It sounds like someone has accessed your account . here is the yahoo help page for that*

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?locale=en_US&page=topics&y=PROD_ACCT&topics=TOP_ONSAFE&pir=ZvVJIk9ibUm_nhoCQdeuISoVozO2KzHKLZK6xQ–