Read closely: phishing attack. Plain and simple. Nothing reassuring in that. Just goes to prove you that there's a sucker born every minute. A very special kind of sucker, one that fills in the login info to website which promises to check who has blocked you in Messenger DOT DOT DOT In case no one noticed it yet, this one isn't MS fault. And the topic from BBC is seriously flawed! There weren't hacked. It's called social engineering. Whether that can be considered as hacking is debatable, usually it's just a tool used to get information for a hack ...