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    Exclamation Hotmail/Windows Live Account Passwords Leaked!!!

    Just a wee recommendation to any users of Hotmail/MSN or Windows Live Mail/Messenger to change your password NOW!.

    Came across this story, basically an undisclosed number of accounts had their passwords posted on a website. It's believed to be over 10,000 accounts, predominately from Europe.

    Change your password now to hopefully stop anyone else gaining access to your account.

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    Re: Hotmail/Windows Live Account Passwords Leaked!!!

    in fact stop using it all together - yes i really mean all of you at the same time hotmail sucks. no, really.

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    Re: Hotmail/Windows Live Account Passwords Leaked!!!

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    ... hotmail sucks. no, really.
    What, like Telly Savalas??

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    Re: Hotmail/Windows Live Account Passwords Leaked!!!

    I'm not sure it's connected but I recently logged onto my Hotmail account to find all the emails in my Inbox were deleted. MSN support couldn't retrieve them and despite all the stuff filed in my Hotmail folders being unaffected, I've lost a lot of messages. This prompted me to change my password for the first time in 10 years. Overdue, I think! I hope others won't make the same mistake.

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    Re: Hotmail/Windows Live Account Passwords Leaked!!!

    It's a big scare over pretty much nothing. It happens all the time. Now they are saying it is with Gmail, Yahoo etc etc etc.

    Only a very very small minority are affected by it. 10,000 - 100,000 (stories vary) is a very small figure in the scheame of things. Especially when you take in to account alot of the emails & passwords would have been inactive, set up till people sorted out a SMTP address or the like. Yet it is amzing how may facebook status updates are "my hotmail has been hacked" etc.

    All a panic over nothing.

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    Re: Hotmail/Windows Live Account Passwords Leaked!!!

    yes, nonsense on the news about technology again -

    basically, if ,at any point , you tell someone what your username and password is then they ...er...know your username and password. Whether they then publish it in a list with 10,000 other username/passwords is irrelevant. Phishing is simply social engineering and if you fall for it its your own fault.

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    Re: Hotmail/Windows Live Account Passwords Leaked!!!

    When I first saw this there was not much information on it and it's only today that Microsoft confirmed that the leak was not a security breach at Hotmail etc.

    So it may well be a scare over nothing now but at the time I thought it a good idea to post the story and warn people to change their passwords just incase. Wonderful thing hindsight...

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    Re: Hotmail/Windows Live Account Passwords Leaked!!!

    Quote Originally Posted by pmjd View Post
    When I first saw this there was not much information on it and it's only today that Microsoft confirmed that the leak was not a security breach at Hotmail etc.

    So it may well be a scare over nothing now but at the time I thought it a good idea to post the story and warn people to change their passwords just incase. Wonderful thing hindsight...
    Yes, news reports have been poor to say the least - theres no harm in warning people to change their passwords to a strong password, some people never even consider it, but if you havent been a victim of a phishing email i.e. you typed it in on a web page without thinking - then theres no real need to change your password at all. Its just scaremongering

    We should do a poll - how many people use the same password more than once...do people use simple words, dates or random characters etc...
    Last edited by Dreadful Scathe; 7th-October-2009 at 08:53 AM.

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    Re: Hotmail/Windows Live Account Passwords Leaked!!!

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post

    We should do a poll - how many people use the same password more than once...do people use simple words, dates or random characters etc...
    I use the same password for all my facebook, online banking, ebay etc etc. The password I use is h00v3r

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    Re: Hotmail/Windows Live Account Passwords Leaked!!!

    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Bartholomew View Post
    The password I use is h00v3r
    Wow, that password sucks... badum, tish

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