More than 10,000 Hotmail accounts hacked

ssj100 · Oct 5, 2009

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/05/hotmail-password-change-microsoft

Hotmail users are being advised to change their passwords, after thousands of account details were posted online.

A list containing more than 10,000 apparently genuine account names and passwords was posted to a website last week, where it remained until being spotted over the weekend by Microsoft security researchers.

The list, which has been seen by the Guardian, appears to be genuine.
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ronjor · Oct 5, 2009

Microsoft said its internal data for Windows Live Hotmail was not breached and the user credentials were likely obtained through a phishing scheme. According to Neowin.net, the list of usernames and passwords appeared to be mostly based in Europe and included hotmail.com, msn.com and live.com accounts.
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http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=011000DNMYLW

ronjor · Oct 6, 2009

By Jonathan Fildes
Technology reporte

The scale of a phishing attack originally thought to be directed at Hotmail may be larger than previously thought.

BBC News has seen a list of more than 20,000 more names and passwords that have been posted online.

The list contains e-mail addresses and passwords from Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, Gmail and other service providers.
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BBC.....

ronjor · Oct 6, 2009

If you receive an email telling you to provide your password it is a phish. That is as simple as it gets. Never give out your password. Even if a known IT professional asks you for it. There are only two kinds of people who ask you for your password… thieves and idiots. You don’t want to give your password to a thief and an idiot can’t be trusted with it, so don’t give it out.
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TonyW · Oct 7, 2009

I wonder if this is connected to the emails circulating asking people to sign up to sites that supposedly help you find out who blocked/deleted you on MSN.

Keyboard_Commando · Oct 7, 2009

BBC seems to have its ear very close to the ground with many recent exploits and suchlike *remembers their illegal experiment to set up a botnet* Wonder what's going on there ...

ronjor · Oct 7, 2009

Could botnets, keylogging be to blame for password leaks?

By Gregg Keizer
October 7, 2009 04:07 PM ET

Computerworld - One researcher isn't buying Microsoft's and Google's explanation that hijacked Hotmail and Gmail passwords were obtained in a massive phishing attack.

Mary Landesman, a senior security researcher at San Francisco-based ScanSafe, said it's more likely that the massive lists -- which include approximately 30,000 credentials from Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail and other sources -- were harvested by botnets that infected PCs with keylogging or data stealing Trojan horses.
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iceni60 · Oct 8, 2009

Most Common Hotmail Password Revealed! - 123456 lol. i generally find it a bit easier to use 123 and forget about 456
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/10000-passwords/

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