WordPress Spam Rates SkyRocket OverNight

I know I woke up this morning to about 500 emails in my email box with this VERY same problem? Did anyone else expererience this?? It matches the descriptions perfect..I wonder if this is related to that mess over the last few days with Wordpress?

WordPress Spam Rates SkyRocket OverNight


Does anyone know of a new tool being used to spam wordpress?

nope! but would like to hear other thoughts on this

I had the same issue with several of our blogs.

Did Akismet fuck up or something?

Things look the same on my end today.