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By on October 5, 2009 in Announcements

Ouch!  Looks like someone hacked and then posted 10,000 hotmail accounts on the internet.  The list was confirmed to be legit and was redistributed all over the internet.  Just think about how many things people save in their email accounts.  What an incredible blunder.

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  • lul69

    Thanks for the heads up

  • ryan

    Thank you so much matt!!!!!!!!! I changed my pass word i also posted it on forums to everyone to change pass words!

  • alexandrojv

    wow, I just wish that it didn’t received so much spam, that’s the main reason I moved out of hotmail

  • http://kingorgg.blogspot.com Kingorgg

    I change my password every 72 days :)

  • http://kingorgg.blogspot.com Kingorgg

    Guess I should change it now though, just incase.

  • Jordan

    That’s why I use Gmail.

  • max

    I have live.com mail i think its also hotmail do i need to change my password?

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/YJH1995 John

    Thank matt I will send this to everyone I know that uses Hotmail

  • 123zap

    @max, yes you should

  • Hamami

    But where can I find the list I do not know if my e-mail is on the list?

  • SophosLover

    Thanks. I’ll spread the word! and have you finished your Returnil review?

  • SophosLover

    Oh never mind about the Retunil review then!

  • http://www.rejzor.tk RejZoR

    From what i understand, they haven’t somehow magically hacked the accounts but they’ve hacked them through social engineering, fooling users into revealing their passwords to them. And even that were e-mail accounts starting with “a” or “b”. So if you know you haven’t sent your data to anyone and your mail account doesn’t start with those letters, you should be just fine.

  • Dario

    However, if Microsoft allowed that email to reach the end user (Gmail would have most probably filtered out the fake email), then MS is partially responsible for this ‘security’ flaw. However, multiple parties are responsible for this. Mostly the people who made the fake emails, but also the uneducated / lazy end-user / perhaps even the government for not giving importance to ‘anti-scam’ education (in most common area’s like computers and finance) at schools.


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