About 20 million hotmail subscribers in Great Britain are instructed to change their password. Actually recently hackers has secured username and password of approximate 10k hotmail subscribers, by breaching its security system. Due to which, the most risk has been occurred to those businessmen, who perform their maximum business activity only through email.
Cyber Police believes that email of most subscribers contain sensitive data i.e Bank and Credit Card Data, which hackers uses to get benefited.
However on the other side, Microsoft said that none of its servers was responsible for the security breach.
Security analyst said in an interview that it was impossible to break Hotmail Server. They expect that Hotmail username and passwords have been collected through a ‘phishing’ attack, in which email subscriber are tricked to disclose their details to what they think is a trustworthy source.
Few days earlier, Hackers has created a fake website, identical to Hotmail, in which some of subscriber has tried to login their original username and password. However, just after that Cyber Police has come in action and published a list of hotmail subscriber on a website, who has become victim of hacker’s attack on fake website.
In the post, Cyber Police has requested hotmail subscriber to change their password, so that they can stay safe and secure online.
Thats good information to know i have a Hotmail acc set up in Great Britain from a few years back now, don’t use it too much but appreciate the heads up.
Time to change a password i think.
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I´ve got My account on Miami (I´m from Argentina,but a while ago Miami gave us more storage than Argentina) and I was Hacked. I changed my password and They hacked it again. The curious thing is that they sent advertisments to all my contacts, and some of them had the same issue. The only solution for this was to delete all the contacts. Fortunatelly, I´ve got another account on yahoo and Gmail….but Hotmail is history for me.
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