More than 10,000 Microsoft Hotmail users hacked

Thousands of accounts on web-based e-mail system Hotmail have been compromised in a phishing attack, software giant Microsoft has confirmed.

BBC News has seen a list of more than 10,000 e-mail accounts, predominantly originating from Europe, and passwords which were posted online...

[renegade]

watchout hackers!

[Madusha]

Wow that would suck if your account was hacked.

Hackers continue to improve their game, they must face penalties.

[FrankDrebin]

Most N4G users use the Hotmail competition site.

HOTMALE!

Users of HOTMALE don't concerning themselves with hacking or security. NO one wants to see what they are emailing each other about.

[verb3k]

Cannot expect any less From Microsoft
"Since we can't innovate, we acquire and then dominate"

[SUP3R]

LOL
That's the fastest I ever closed a website when I checked hotmale.

[renegade]

[email protected]... Rolf

[Blaze929]

Whoa whoa whoa...there are actually 10,000 people use hotmail!?

Thats...thats....THATS OVER 9000!!!!!

[kalebgray92]

with every product... except windows 7 hopefully

[Major_Tom]

:O

[renegade]

He missed a thousand more.

[IdleLeeSiuLung]

Phising is tricking the user to provide the credentials. That means 10k unsuspecting users gave away their passwords.

It has nothing to do with hacking let alone MS ability to secure their servers. Google once had a security hole that allowed emails to be forwarded to other email accounts via their filters. No password needed!

Why not use the original title of the article? Almost always do we get misleading or in this case plain wrong titles when it is changed!

[Rock Bottom]

How the F did you found out about HOTMALE, FrankDrebin?

@IdleLeeSiuLung: This is where I took the title from:

http://i163.photobucket.com...

It's the same source, and I chose that one(obviously) for the hits, you know how things work around here. :p

[IdleLeeSiuLung]

I gotcha! You still contribute to the garbage here. It is already such a hostile environment that I think I'm going to lay off the comments.

[James Bond]

I told Hotmail users it was dangerous, but they didn't listen. Perhaps next time they'll listen to old James Bond.

[renegade]

You better investigate and kill those hackers! LOL

[gta_cb]

obviously you dont or your just messing around. anyway Phishing is when a user is tricked into giving out their own information aka the accounts WAS NOT HACKED.

a quote from the story
"Phishing involves using fake websites to lure people into revealing details such as bank accounts or login names"

[Quadrix]

That's our Microsoft!

[SUP3R]

People still use Hotmail? =\

[Megaton]

That's what I'm sayin'. I ditched my Hotmail account close to 10 years ago.

[Theoneneo81]

yeah i havent used hotmail in a decade lol been aol now using gmail Gmail is the win.

[uie4rhig]

so i haven't really had any problems :) lol

[comm13]

How surprising :)

[OmarJA]

Thank god i don't use it...

GMX & GMail FTW!

[ReviewsArePolitics]

So I never have to use SH1tmail again

[SKUD]

Item number 1 TRILLION on Microsoft's glitch list.

[dkgshiz]

What a bunch of primates.

[KeenanTheSavage]

Is hotmail one of those mythical things I heard about..... like the Zune?

[Theoneneo81]

except ive seen hotmail work i have yet to see a zune out in public that works ;)

[xc7x]

Hotmail was not something Microsoft made,it was an independent site before they bought it out.

[KeenanTheSavage]

Yeah, that was back in the days /(bad)nostalgia

[Theoneneo81]

and hotmail sucked back then to.

[xc7x]

i was one of the better web mails of it's time. i never thought of Hotmail sucking,it has more to offer than a lot of web mails but yeah it'd been better had it remained independent.

[devilhunterx]

Another fine product from the best engineer at M$!

[OpenGL]

This is a result of phishing, not hacking. How is Microsoft supposed to stop their stupid users from giving out their passwords?

[Risky_24]

Funny thing about sony supporters is they jump at anything that has microsoft in it. Guess there aren't lives on sale

[KeenanTheSavage]

Agreed with OpenGL on this one. It had really nothing to do with M$. I mean, it's just retards that don't know what the hell their doing. It happens with paypal accounts and other types of accounts all the time.

[devilhunterx]

Suppose a vault maker sells you an expensive vault for your bank and a thief comes along and steal everything inside.

Would you blame the vault maker for making tall claims and lying knowing that the vault is piece of junk or would you blame the thief for being so intelligent?

THINK. It doesn't cost money.

[gta_cb]

are you an idiot? your "arguement" is completely void.

Its up to the users of hotmail to keep their passwords secure. If you got a key logger on your computer and your hotmail info was logged would you blame Microsoft? (hopefully not otherwise your a fool) its EXACTLY the same as this but people gave away information on websites.

[Obama]

Gmail..get with the time people.

[Bzone24]

This phishing scam is now happening to Gmail accounts. Yahoo too.

http://www.foxnews.com/stor...

[Toadmaster89]

Probably from ebaumsworld....

[Why Dat]

Oh dang... I still use hotmail though! I guess I'm too old school. I don't take to change too easily, so when I tried G-mail, it didn't easily replace hotmail for me.

These kinda scares make me wish I easily adopted G-mail though.

[dragonelite]

Lame titel and the stupidity from the posters.
Phishing is your own dam fault, not that the servers got hacked and they got there info that way. When that happens you can call it microsofts fault but no company cant stop a good hacker look even the sh!tty pentagon got hacked(he got access to classified information) by a British hacker.

[bjornbear]

This is a first!..../s

[Bzone24]

If you'd learn to read, you'd notice that this isn't Microsoft's fault. Also it's happening to Gmail and Yahoo accounts now.

[tojfrd7931z]

Mostly in Europe huh? Makes me wonder if someone isn't trying to kill the windows live push there. Guess I will not be using windows live anymore. Too bad my xbox died account is still active otherwise I would be able to cancel my live accounts.

[napplegate]

i'm shocked more than anything that people still use hotmail.