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Hackers get over 10,000 Hotmail passwords, leak them over the Internet!

2 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/hackers-get-over-10-000-hotmail-passwords-leak-them-over-the-internet.121560/

NewsBytes
NewsBytes Original post #1
Oct 6, 2009 at 11:05 AM
If you have a Hotmail or Windows Live account, you had better go check it right away. Hackers have managed to get a hold of thousands of Hotmail passwords and posted it online, so we strongly suggest you first log in to your account and change the password before doing anything else right now.
 
Neowin is reporting that a phishing scheme has managed to get a lot of those passwords, and an anonymous user posted details of the accounts on October 1 at code-sharing site PasteBin. And that huge li...

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topgear
topgear #2
Oct 7, 2009 at 5:50 AM
I've created a thread about this on 5:38 AM yesterday.

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=121552

BTW, why did you made two threads about the same news one at 11:05 AM and another one at 11:07 AM ?