It happens. Your account hasn't been hijacked per se, but your email address has been used as the "From" or "Reply-To" address on a spam mailing. So all their bounces come to you.
They didn't have to get into your account or send those mail from anything to do with you--they literally filled in a field in THEIR mass-email program with YOUR email address. So you're not hacked or hijacked or in any real trouble except that you're in line for a whole lot of bounced email coming to you.
It's very irritating, but it happens, and it ought to be over fairly soon.
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