Update: Microsoft has confirmed Neowin's initial report, saying, "several thousand Windows Live Hotmail customer's credentials were exposed on a third-party site due to a likely phishing scheme." Redmond has determined that its internal data has not been breached, and it is working to help users regain control of their accounts.

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Accounts with A-B as 1st names or Surname. I fall into both Ooer...(:

Glad I haven't had a hotmail account for about 6 years :D.

Look it from the optimistic point of view: I can now ask anybody on the net for my hotmail account password in case I've forgotten it!

guys! more than 30,000 email accounts have now been posted accross all major webmail sites!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8292928.stm

I'm curious to know what over 10,000 mean... is it 10,001 or 100,000 or 1M. give us an accurate or extremely close number.


nannhy dueh

Oh, but which password to use when I find them all... such a struggle.

From what I can tell, the 30,000 accounts are pretty much suppressed now... and it is easy enough to change passwords anyway. Microsoft has certainly made it a nightmare for some of my clients.

to Guest

it was 10,028 i think i read on the bbc website? but its like 30,000 now but no actual number attached.

Get rid of email:

It is about time to get rid of email by go to directly to the source.
Steps are:
1) Have a program that will contact your sources.
2) Download what the source have for that day or week or email
your source.
3) If your sources want to get in touch with you, use your e-mail
provider or set a special time up for computer to computer
communication.
This will all so get rid of Spam, viruses or junk mail from your e-mail provider.

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