Hotmail Breached; Microsoft Now Investigating

... as if the huge influx of spam weren't bad enough?
Thank you, Gmail!

Insert thank god I have _____ email provider here... /sarcasm

Hotmail, what's that??? That's like oh so 1996? I just forward all my spam from my other e-mail accounts to my hotmail account. Duh? I'm mean these people who are looking for information I'll gladly just forward the spam to them.

hahahahahahahhahaha go microsoft!

I have two hotmail accounts and one Gmail account... Gmail is my main mail supplier and to be honest i find the Spam far more sever in Gmail.

Also i find hotmail easier to read when you get many sent/replies to one email.

It's free, how can anyone complain realy?

Do you work for MicroSoft?

I heard a similar story like this it had to do with a specific phone and facebook/myspace pages this is an identical scenario not microsofts fault

Oh ****!

I can honestly say that I've never gotten a single spam message in my Gmail inbox, besides things that I willingly signed up for, like newsletters and stuff

I think people need to stop complaining about services that are provided free of charge "You get what you pay for". 'Nuff said.

Couldn't say it better my self.

As for me, i have and like both. They both have there pro's and con's.

Gmail has strong Spam filters
my hotmail account was always crashing until i forget it and change to Gmail account
i hope Googletalke come more popular and have more features Like yahoo messenger and msn messenger

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I've got two (active) accounts for both services. I prefer the GMail over Hotmail because at least the Spam to the Gmail account actually ends up in the Spam folder. I've lost track of how many times I've had to manually filter through Spam on Homtail.

Don't get me wrong, I love SPAM, it's tasty with a side of rice. And I love the fact that both services are free. I just can't stand the fact that no matter how many times I flag "Fr3e V!agra" as Spam, I still get offers for it in the Inbox. I'm on my 4 & 5th hotmail accounts (one work, one for messenger/XBL), and I'm not going to make another ever (knocks on wood)

i have stopped using Hotmail loooong time ago, go figure

another micro$uxx "innovation" at work?
Get some real news...

I wonder what is causing this. Maybe it has to do with the way mobile phones aquire their IP or traffic is routed to and from them.

That's a very general statement, but I mean that if 'N' 3G users are dynamically assigned an IP based off of 'X' tower(s) and they disconnect, does the next 'new' connection get that IP?


I don't have an understand as to how the process works, so this is all just uneducated\ignorant speculation.

All your inbox are belong to someone else.

When you're not "money driven", you're either a retarded or "honor driven".

And since Google and M$ are both companies, I'll stick with the first assumption: "money driven". Now, making GMail and Hotmail "free" is not quite like that. They provide a services using their main company name for it.

If you provide a "lousy" service in the light of your competition at the same price, you're doing it wrong. Since GMail is an awsome service Hotmail can be no less, obviously.

Now... They DO make money from us giving that free service and they ought to improve it too keep it that way. By either feedback/reports or in-house pure R&D.

So, bottom line is: free of charge, doesn't mean they can be lazy about implementing new things. At least on the email service IMO.

Cheers!

Well yeah, Gmail is much more popular, I thought Hotmail had gone the way of the dinosaur.
Gmail has excellent spam filtering and has worked 100% of the time for me.

I was thinking the same thing.

I haven't used hotmail since 10 years ago.

lo: if you are on a public computer and the last person to have log on to hotmail hasn't sign out properly:

when you type hotmail.com : you most likely to get directly into the others person hotmail account.

I've seen it happen more than once

It must be fixed as soon as possible.

Hotmail sucks, just another dumb mail. Switch over to Gmail or whatever you think it's better!

Hotmail works fine. I've used it for almost a decade, and aside from a few headache-inducing problems over the years, it's worked great for me. Gmail is another story: inconsistent interface, crashes, hack attacks, and viruses were the constant norm for Gmail users up until they pulled it out of beta status last year (and how long was it in beta status? Maybe some of you Gmail fanboiz could tell me). Not to mention the huge privacy concerns. Seriously, I'm amazed at how many of you guys are defending Gmail as a reliable email program.

Please. Hotmail is fine.

Has anyone else had their email hacked and messages sent from their account?

i think hotmail sucks

I have $50 that says this gets linked back to China.

I've been getting spammed to death by Hotmail & Live user accounts for several weeks now. I'd say MS Hotmail and Live have been hacked for some time now and MS is only just starting to get a handle on it. It's sad that it takes a major screw-up by the hackers which corrupts the function of the site, before MS gets a clue. They probably don't yet know the full extent of the problem and probably won't reveal it to the public unless dragged kicking and screaming.

It all depends on who you give your e-mail to, if you are subscribed to ANYTHING on the net there is a 99.9% chance that they are distributing your e-mail even if the fine-print says otherwise. I just opened a new gmail acct about a month ago, i have 2 messages in my inbox, both from newegg. I also have a 3 year gmail inbox that has about 10% spam, but that is my fault . I left hotmail years ago due to the spam, I guess it works for some and it doesn't for others