Microsoft's Hotmail Challenge Backfires

[Desmond]

Microsoft challenged the editor of PC Pro to return to Hotmail after six years of using Gmail, to prove that its webmail service had vastly improved — but the challenge backfired when he had his Hotmail account hacked. PC Pro's editor says he was quietly impressed with a number of new Hotmail features, including SkyDrive integration and mailbox clean-up features. He'd even imported his Gmail and contacts into Microsoft's service. But the two-week experiment came to an abrupt end when Hotmail sent a message containing a malicious link to all of his contacts. 'What's even more worrying is that it's not only my webmail that's been compromised, but my Xbox login (which holds my credit card details) and now my PC login too. Because Windows 8 practically forces you to login with your Windows Live/Hotmail details to access features such as the Metro Store, synchronization and SkyDrive,' he writes.

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Never really trusted Hotmail.

 

[noob]

lol This is why i never even bothered to use anything other than Gmail

 

[coolpcguy]

password was a seven-letter string of lowercase letters. Not a dictionary word, but part acronym, part proper noun

right & then blame it on the service provider for a weak password

not a Hotmail fan but blaming Hotmail for his stupidity is.. yeah, whatever.

Never really trusted Hotmail.

 

[tkin]

Similar thing happened on my backup gmail account as well, the account wasn't hacked but a spam mail was sent to contacts, the password didn't change, neither did anything, just found the ad mail in the sent box, similar issues were reported by other users as well, so nothing is un-hackable.

PS: I have a hotmail account as well(and xbla), it was never hacked.

 

[montsa007]

Had a similar (spam mail sent) story on my primary yahoo account.
Never used Hotmail