Do you have a hotmail/live/msn account? If so read this...

Conway · Oct 6, 2009

Do you have a hotmail/live/msn account? If so read this...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/05/hotmail_passwords_leaked/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8292299.stm

Login credentials for more than 10,000 Microsoft Live accounts have been posted to the internet, most likely by miscreants who found them or harvested them in a phishing attack.

In all, there were 10,028 pairs of user names and passwords posted to multiple pages of public upload website Pastebin.com, some of which remained live at time of writing. The stash is likely only a small sample of a much larger haul, since the alphabetical list begins with the user name ararat973@hoymail.com and concludes with blando2713@hotmail.com.

The discovery coincided with unsubstantiated posts that claimed passwords for all Windows Live accounts had been leaked. That seemed highly unlikely. If one assumed there were 5,500 accounts beginning with each letter of the alphabet - a crude estimate based on the sample - that would come to just 143,000 compromised accounts total. That's a tiny fraction of the 450 million or so total Windows Live accounts out there.

Those who have any doubt about the security of their Windows Live addresses ought to change their passwords immediately out of an abundance of caution.
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It may be a good idea to change your hotmail/live/msn password if you haven't already done so....

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