Gmail, Yahoo Mail, And Hotmail Email Hacked Via Phishing Attack
Its confirmed, over 30,000 email accounts including Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, Gmail, AOL Mail and other web mail services have been compromised by phishing attacks recently. The situation was made worst with the availability of the list on a forum.
According to the source, the password was acquired via phishing attack. Meaning to say user are lured into suspicious website without being realizing the account credentials like username and password are transferred to those scammers.
BBC News has seen two lists that detail more than 30,000 names and passwords from e-mail providers, including Yahoo and AOL, which were posted online. The lists also include details of thousands of Microsoft Hotmail users. Google said fewer than 500 of its accounts had been affected by the scam. Source – BBC
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Security Alert! Are you a hotmail or msn live user? If you’re an European user, there is a possible chance that your hotmail email has been hacked and the password leaked to unknown source. According to NeoWin:
Microsoft has now fully confirmed our reports. According to a Microsoft spokesperson “over the weekend Microsoft learned that several thousand Windows Live Hotmail customer’s credentials were exposed on a third-party site due to a likely phishing scheme. Upon learning of the issue, we immediately requested that the credentials be removed and launched an investigation to determine the impact to customers.
What should you do? Change your password now! Change your secret question and answer now! Once these information leaked to a torrent website, there is no telling who might be logging into your email account!
How To Change Hotmail / MSN Password?
Visit www.hotmail.com or www.msn.com. Go to the screen on your right, then select ‘options’ –> ‘more options’
Click the link ‘View and edit your personal information’, once a new page loads, look for the ‘change password’ link.
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