someone has hacked into my email,

[SylviaMathieu]

someone has hacked into my email. I changed my password and noticed my  address book is emptying I cannot receive or send emails. Friends have received emails with weird messages, like "I am sick, or would like them to buy something for me and forward it to me" which were not from me. 

[Billx]

Is the commotion continuing to happen after you changed your email address, as well?

And when you changed your email address, did you use a completely different email address to do the resetting of your first account's password?

Bill