SMTP never authenticated the From field, so writing any address there costs an attacker nothing. What normally stops this is the receiving side checking SPF, DKIM and DMARC alignment against the header domain. Policy is the weak spot: p=none files a report and delivers the mail anyway, and a week-old lookalike domain has no reputation to lose. Most clients then show the display name and hide the address behind a click. With that screenshot, open the raw header and read Authentication-Results. Passing DKIM for the real domain would mean their sending infrastructure was abused. Missing or failing signatures mean plain forgery from a throwaway domain, and then the right target is a blocklist entry and a DMARC report rather than a breach investigation.

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THIS. Foundation servers are NOT compromised and did nothing wrong. It is your email server and client that allow to receive these spoofed messages. If you go to mxtoolbox.com and check foundation.xyz domain, you will see that is hosted on a Google server and have all the required SPF DMARC etc records well configured. That means WHO received this email must check the header, not only the "from" field. But yeah people on nostr love to be dramatic without knowing how emails works.
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