 TearAbiteD'oh
join:2001-07-25
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
kudos:2 | reply to madylarian
Re: Hotmail hacked? I'd disagree that accounts being compromised on the user end defies common sense, but i do agree that Hotmail accounts being hacked is on the increase. After one of my wife's old hotmail accounts was sending out money requests to all of her contacts via Western Union for her "trip to nigera", i did some searching and found that it is indeed happening to a LOT of other people, beginning around January or so of this year.
We use only Mac's, so the chances of one of our machines being compromised is very low - so something is going on here. |
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 SnowymIRC unix.ro UnderNetPremium
join:2003-04-05
Kailua, HI
kudos:5
 ·Clearwire Wireless
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| The larger, more organized groups that are involved with the exploitation of home machines for commercial purposes don't parse the data manually. It's done via keyword scripts & sometimes I may see an occasional "gmail" or "mail.yahoo" entry, I can't recall ever seeing "hotmail" used as a keyword.
I suppose a smaller operator might believe the few cents they would get for that info justifies the effort but the cost in terms of "lost" machines due to the rightful owner getting a heads up that they have may have a compromised machine because of a compromised hotmail account makes it a losing proposition.
But then again, anything is possible because trying to figure out what makes some of these people tick is next to impossible. |
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NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
kudos:4 Reviews:
 ·SONIC.NET
·Pacific Bell - SBC
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Showing the Web view of sent Hotmail. |
said by TearAbite:After one of my wife's old hotmail accounts was sending out money requests to all of her contacts via Western Union for her "trip to nigera", i did some searching and found that it is indeed happening to a LOT of other people, beginning around January or so of this year. Which is, coincidentally, about the time that Windows Live Hotmail began to reintroduce free POP3 access (which used to be allowed before Microsoft bought Hotmail).
And email sent via 'smtp.live.com' will not show up in the "Sent Items" folder of either the Web mail view, or the HTTPMail client.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
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