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Hackers Could Read Your Hotmail, MSN, and Outlook Emails by Abusing Microsoft Support (vice.com)
eatmorekix writes: On Saturday, Microsoft confirmed that some users of the company's email service had been targeted by hackers. A hacker or group of hackers had first broken into a customer support account for Microsoft, and then used that to gain access to information related to customers' email accounts such as the subject lines of their emails and who they've communicated with. But the issue is much worse than previously reported, with the hackers able to access email content from a large number of Outlook, MSN, and Hotmail email accounts, according to a source who witnessed the attack in action and described it before Microsoft's statement, as well as screenshots provided to Motherboard. Microsoft confirmed to Motherboard that hackers gained access to the content of some customers' emails.
Yeah, I have an ancient pre-Microsoft Hotmail account - 7 letters (my name)@hotmail.com. I'm absolutely certain that Microsoft would do fuck-all in the event of me being locked out of my account.
I get a LOT of email meant for other people - if I'm bored, I sift through it and fire off some replies. I know how to live.
Even if it's still there, there's a good chance it's cleaned it out and disabled. I registered mine back when Hotmail was still the name, but then a Gmail invite came from a friend and eventually I stopped logging into it. By the time I did it was basically a new account activation but with a "Welcome back" message. I lost all the old emails and contacts thanks to that.