Anyone use Hotmail?

[Barrichello]

If so Microsoft advising to change your password...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8291268.stm

[TheAnimus]

in fariness you have to have been enough of a twit to give it up for a phishing scheme........

[finlay666]

If so Microsoft advising to change your password...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8291268.stm

Surely you should change your password every few weeks/months anyway

Only ones I don't bother to change I only use for signing up for free stuff so it only gets junk anyway

[AledJ]

Who would be daft enough to put their password for a hotmail account into a text field on a site???

[Whiternoise]

I'd be worried if it were my account, isn't hotmail basically your entire Live membership these days?

I changed mine to be on the safe side, but still.

[finlay666]

I'd be worried if it were my account, isn't hotmail basically your entire Live membership these days?

I changed mine to be on the safe side, but still.

Yes it's linked to a LOT of things

Will get family/friends to change theirs to be on the safe side

[Barrichello]

Yes it's linked to a LOT of things

Will get family/friends to change theirs to be on the safe side

As much as i would like to think my parents are fairly tech savvy, they still use hotmail, so i think i will get them to change just in case.

[Disturbedguy]

Changed mine just incase, I know I havent been subject to any phishing scams, but always to be safer than sorry.

[TooNice]

Who would be daft enough to put their password for a hotmail account into a text field on a site???

I wouldn't type my password anywhere -but- on the Yahoo/Hotmail/Gmail screen, but I rather suspect that at least some people would trust sites like Facebook going through your webmail address book (so that you can auto-add/spam invites).
So I guess you only need a site that seem to provide a useful service, with a semi-professional layout to sucker some people to type their webmail accounts.

[kalniel]

in fariness you have to have been enough of a twit to give it up for a phishing scheme........

The numbers are so high that presumably they've only used phishing to get access to the server, the rest is probably hacked.

[schmunk]

Both my wife and father have had their hotmail accounts hacked recently, and I assure you that neither of them is stupid enough to fall for phishing.

[TheAnimus]

it would be a hell of a lot more than 10,000 thou if it where a hack surely?

I can't imagine even one segment of a table having as few users as that. (also I would really loose faith in humanity if they stored cleartext).

So i would say phishing, or mabye cross site scripting?

[Grey M@a]

Seems the same site has had details of yahoo and gmail accounts posted up to. So seems the main web based free email services have had people being stupid enough to click on phising emails and links.

[kalniel]

it would be a hell of a lot more than 10,000 thou if it where a hack surely?

I'd bet it is a hell of a lot more.

[schmunk]

it would be a hell of a lot more than 10,000 thou if it where a hack surely?

I can't imagine even one segment of a table having as few users as that. (also I would really loose faith in humanity if they stored cleartext).

So i would say phishing, or mabye cross site scripting?

The Metro article this morning said something about this list being addresses from A to B, so in theory there could be at least another 12 times this...

[vti_786]

Surely you should change your password every few weeks/months anyway

Only ones I don't bother to change I only use for signing up for free stuff so it only gets junk anyway

man, i haven't changed my password ever since i opened the email account