Hotmail hacked, thousands of accounts compromised

Microsoft confirmed yesterday evening that Hotmail had been targeted by malicious fraudsters in what is commonly referred to as a phishing scam, tricking users into revealing their credentials at fake websites.

Details of accounts were posted on the code snippets website pastebin.com on October 1st. The list only covered names beginning with A or B meaning only a partial list was taken, or that was just a taster of the full list.

The important thing is this looks like a legitimate list of accounts and covers addresses ending in hotmail.com, msn.com, and live.com. At least 10,000 accounts are in the wild.

Microsoft is looking into the claims of a breach, but has yet to confirm whether its service has been compromised. If you have an account ending hotmail, live, or msn, then don’t hesitate and start changing your email service to Gmail today!

Microsoft has never been secured!!!