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INFORMATION SYSTEMS BREACHES
Microsoft today confirmed that thousands of Windows Live Hotmail account usernames and passwords had leaked to the Internet, but said the credentials were "likely" stolen in a phishing attack. The company denied that its Web-based e-mail service had been hacked and the account log-in information stolen because of some lapse on its part. …
Microsoft did acknowledge that Hotmail accounts had been compromised. "Over the weekend Microsoft learned that several thousand Windows Live Hotmail customers' credentials were exposed on a third-party
due to a likely phishing scheme," [a Microsoft] spokeswoman [said]. … According to Neowin.net, which first reported the Hotmail incident, more than 10,000 accounts had been compromised. However, Neowin said it had seen only a partial list -- accounts with usernames starting with "A" or "B" -- and suspected that the total could be much larger. [Date: 5 October 2009
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