ToneKnee Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 According to tech news site Neowin, an anonymous user posted usernames and passwords for over 10,000 Windows Live Hotmail accounts to web site PasteBin, including accounts on email domains like @hotmail.com, @msn.com, and @live.com. Neowin verified that the accounts are genuine, and that most appear to be based in Europe. Ars Technica reports, more specifically, those leaked accounts include usernames in alphabetical order beginning with the letters "ar" to "bl". Microsoft has confirmed the leak, so if you're a Live Hotmail user and you suspect you may have been affected, now's the time to change that password. For the rest of us?well, this may serve as a reminder that it might be a good time to do a password refresh, anyway. http://lifehacker.com/5374745/10000-hotmai...s-leaked-online Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XerXis Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 also here: http://www.standaard.be/Artikel/Detail.asp...DMF05102009_033 however, all these sites dramatize the original article and pretend like hotmail got hacked. Which isn't the case at all. Just stupid users falling for fishing attacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonhapimp Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...830336&st=0 https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...#entry591665552 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neodorian Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Wonder if that's why the site seems slow today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonhapimp Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 it better be i noticed it was really slow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
what Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Frankly, if there's any site out there reporting on this story without mentioning Neowin, they're plagiarising :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morphen Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Tom is famous ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney T. Administrators Posted October 5, 2009 Administrators Share Posted October 5, 2009 http://forums.winxpcentral.com/showthread.php?t=28287 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToneKnee Posted October 7, 2009 Author Share Posted October 7, 2009 Sorry, I realise I was late posting this topic and didn't see how big this story turned out to be. Quite funny really. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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