Hotmail passwords leaked online ?

[Crypto]

Thousands of Hotmail Passwords Leaked Online.

Todays Update​

Hotmail phishing attack confirmed, 20,000 accounts in total

Microsoft confirmed yesterday evening that the popular web email service, 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.

Neowin can today reveal that more lists are circulating with genuine account information and that over 20,000 accounts have now been compromised. Non-Hotmail passport accounts have been affected too. A new list contains email accounts for Gmail, Comcast, Earthlink and other third party popular web mail services. It's not clear if this is login information for the service itself or the Microsoft Passport passwords.

More from Neowin......

(Thanks to neowin for the heads-up on the news)​

Yesterdates Update from Windows Live Team Blog​

Phishing scheme affecting some Hotmail customers​

Over the weekend Microsoft learned that several thousand Windows Live Hotmail customers’ credentials were exposed on a third-party site due to a likely phishing scheme. Upon learning of the issue, we immediately requested that the credentials be removed and launched an investigation to determine the impact to customers. As part of that investigation, we determined that this was not a breach of internal Microsoft data and initiated our standard process of working to help customers regain control of their accounts.

   Tip

Rafael Rivera from WithinWindows posted this link that checks a given Windows Live mail some 19000+ phished list.​

http://wasiphished.com​

   Information

Can Confirm this, tried severel logins and they Surerly Work.
-no intention to screw any logins, just want to check if this was a rumor-​

Please Change your Hotmail Passwords. Its Better to be Secure​

 

[Antman]

MS recently took a few weeks to correct a problem I was having with my mail account.

I'm done with that "service".

 

[Mercurial]

omg lol changing pass now.! !

 

[georgio]

hotmail

Thanks for that. I have now changed my password.

 

[Crypto]

Thanks for that. I have now changed my password.

Your welcome georgio, and welcome to sevenforums

I assume that the logins are some phished ones, and not leaked directly from some login database:shock:.

Its always better to change the password rather than taking any risks.

 

[Tews]

I wonder how this will effect MDSN/Technet users?

 

[Teerex]

I've received more than o couple of e-mails like these from some of my contacts recently..

!
[email protected] invited you to check who has deleted or blocked you from their contact list on MSN Messenger.

It's Easy, Secure and Free!

Try it Now, Click Here



Thanks
Status Checking Team.


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This mail is sent by [email protected] using MSN status checking Application.
This email cannot be considered as SPAM as this is an invitation to you by the sender.

Sometimes I wonder if people can really be that dumb to type their password there.. I guess they can..

 

[Tews]

10,000 were!.. :roflmao:

 

[jimbo45]

Hi all
One of many reasons why I don't like Hot / Live or any Webmail based email service -- I always RDP to my own server and use the email via the ISP -- not 100% foolproof but much more secure than webmail based services -- also no annoying ads and generally works faster too - especially on receive.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[DocBrown]

Strange, I cannot log into Hotmail this morning, I could last night

 

[Crypto]

10,000 were!.. :roflmao:

that 10000 range has emails starting from ar to bl
there may be plenty more.

People should be more vigilant on what they click, reply and forward when using emails.

It would be nice to post some guidance in somewhere regarding email usage, what to do and not to do. This may be a help for the forum members also. There are many things that we are unaware of

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

I wonder how this will effect MDSN/Technet users?

I don't know but I just changed my password.


Thanks Crypto.

 

[Tews]

I wonder how this will effect MDSN/Technet users?

I don't know but I just changed my password.
Thanks Crypto.

Good form old bean... forewarned is forearmed!!

 

[Lebon14]

I've received more than o couple of e-mails like these from some of my contacts recently..

!
[email protected] invited you to check who has deleted or blocked you from their contact list on MSN Messenger.

It's Easy, Secure and Free!

Try it Now, Click Here



Thanks
Status Checking Team.


______
This mail is sent by [email protected] using MSN status checking Application.
This email cannot be considered as SPAM as this is an invitation to you by the sender.

Sometimes I wonder if people can really be that dumb to type their password there.. I guess they can..

I always get those and never gave a damn.

I wonder if anyone saved the list? I just want to check if mine was leaked. My password to my hotmail is pretty secure. So, I just hope that I won't need to change it anytime soon.

 

[stormy13]

I've received more than o couple of e-mails like these from some of my contacts recently..

!
[email protected] invited you to check who has deleted or blocked you from their contact list on MSN Messenger.

It's Easy, Secure and Free!

Try it Now, Click Here



Thanks
Status Checking Team.


______
This mail is sent by [email protected] using MSN status checking Application.
This email cannot be considered as SPAM as this is an invitation to you by the sender.

Sometimes I wonder if people can really be that dumb to type their password there.. I guess they can..

10,000 were!.. :roflmao:

You can include my mother-in-law and sister-in-law, I got a similar email from both of them.

Hey!

[email protected] invited you to check who has deleted or blocked you from their contact list on MSN Messenger.

It's Easy, Secure and Free!

Try it Now, Click Here



Thanks
Status Obervation Team.


______
This mail is sent by [email protected] using MSN status checker Application.
This email cannot be considered as SPAM as this is an invitation to you by the sender.

You would think that glaring spelling mistake would be a dead giveaway.

 

[Crypto]

I wonder if anyone saved the list? I just want to check if mine was leaked. My password to my hotmail is pretty secure. So, I just hope that I won't need to change it anytime soon.

(d)

   Tip

Rafael Rivera from WithinWindows posted this link that checks a given Windows Live mail some 19000+ phished list.

http://wasiphished.com
​

This warning surely works.

 

[Lebon14]

Yay! I'm green. But I did change my password just in case XD

 

[Crypto]

A new list has been found at it claims to have emails that are Non-Hotmail. which includes gmail too

Thread updated with the new news please refer to the first page .

 

[breezen18]

It says that I'm Green, scary !

 

[stormy13]

I wonder if anyone saved the list? I just want to check if mine was leaked. My password to my hotmail is pretty secure. So, I just hope that I won't need to change it anytime soon.

Only way for it to have happened is if you clicked on that link in the email you got (or one like I posted), and then entered your info there.