Guest NeedsMet Posted November 3, 2008 Posted November 3, 2008 I have more than 1 hotmail account. I do not use my old @hotmail account anymore. Ive upgrade to a @live.com account. I checked my old account and it has been hacked. It had a auto vacation reply set to this company in Hong Kong.. Their contact email: stuff-market@live.cn. MSN:stuff-market@live.cn Quote
Guest Tom [Pepper] Willett Posted November 3, 2008 Posted November 3, 2008 Thanks for letting us know. "NeedsMet" <NeedsMet@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:DBAA4302-C4B3-4E24-BFE1-CFD71B870F56@microsoft.com... :I have more than 1 hotmail account. I do not use my old @hotmail account : anymore. Ive upgrade to a @live.com account. I checked my old account and it : has been hacked. It had a auto vacation reply set to this company in Hong : Kong.. : : Their contact email: stuff-market@live.cn. : MSN:stuff-market@live.cn : Quote
Guest NeedsMet Posted November 3, 2008 Posted November 3, 2008 Assuming that yuo are with Microsoft, I hope yall plug up this hole. This is a very major secuirty breach!! I will be shutting down my hotmail and .live accounts. I dont want spam to go out to folks in my name. "Tom [Pepper] Willett" wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > Thanks for letting us know. > > "NeedsMet" <NeedsMet@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:DBAA4302-C4B3-4E24-BFE1-CFD71B870F56@microsoft.com... > :I have more than 1 hotmail account. I do not use my old @hotmail account > : anymore. Ive upgrade to a @live.com account. I checked my old account and > it > : has been hacked. It had a auto vacation reply set to this company in Hong > : Kong.. > : > : Their contact email: stuff-market@live.cn. > : MSN:stuff-market@live.cn > : > > > </span> Quote
Guest PA Bear [MS MVP] Posted November 4, 2008 Posted November 4, 2008 DUCK! NeedsMet wrote:<span style="color:blue"> > Assuming that yuo are with Microsoft, I hope yall plug up this hole. This > is > a very major secuirty breach!! > > I will be shutting down my hotmail and .live accounts. I dont want spam to > go out to folks in my name. > > "Tom [Pepper] Willett" wrote: ><span style="color:green"> >> Thanks for letting us know. >> >> "NeedsMet" <NeedsMet@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >> news:DBAA4302-C4B3-4E24-BFE1-CFD71B870F56@microsoft.com...<span style="color:darkred"> >>> I have more than 1 hotmail account. I do not use my old @hotmail account >>> anymore. Ive upgrade to a @live.com account. I checked my old account >>> and >>> it has been hacked. It had a auto vacation reply set to this company in >>> Hong Kong.. >>> >>> Their contact email: stuff-market@live.cn. >>> MSN:stuff-market@live.cn </span></span></span> Quote
Guest FromTheRafters Posted November 4, 2008 Posted November 4, 2008 How was it hacked? Did they brute force your password? - what was it..."Fluffy"? ....I'm just sayin' - maybe it's not their hole that needs plugging. Hackers probably find it easier to guess passwords of existing accounts than to attempt to read CAPTCHA in order to create their own new accounts. The former can be automated. "NeedsMet" <NeedsMet@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:658D952F-B070-4301-802E-324CC6EEC29E@microsoft.com...<span style="color:blue"> > Assuming that yuo are with Microsoft, I hope yall plug up this hole. This > is > a very major secuirty breach!! > > I will be shutting down my hotmail and .live accounts. I dont want spam to > go out to folks in my name. > > "Tom [Pepper] Willett" wrote: ><span style="color:green"> >> Thanks for letting us know. >> >> "NeedsMet" <NeedsMet@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >> news:DBAA4302-C4B3-4E24-BFE1-CFD71B870F56@microsoft.com... >> :I have more than 1 hotmail account. I do not use my old @hotmail account >> : anymore. Ive upgrade to a @live.com account. I checked my old account >> and >> it >> : has been hacked. It had a auto vacation reply set to this company in >> Hong >> : Kong.. >> : >> : Their contact email: stuff-market@live.cn. >> : MSN:stuff-market@live.cn >> : >> >> >> </span></span> Quote
Guest VanguardLH Posted November 4, 2008 Posted November 4, 2008 NeedsMet wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > I have more than 1 hotmail account. I do not use my old @hotmail account > anymore. Ive upgrade to a @live.com account. I checked my old account and it > has been hacked. It had a auto vacation reply set to this company in Hong > Kong.. > > Their contact email: stuff-market@live.cn. > MSN:stuff-market@live.cn</span> It is not Microsoft's fault that you use an short and easily cracked password using brute force methods. Change the password and this time use a strong password. If your account gets hacked again, start checking your host for a keylogger and start reconsidering if you use your laptop at Internet cafes without using SSL for the connection to the mail server. Quote
Guest Hacked Posted November 28, 2008 Posted November 28, 2008 I just discovered my Hotmail account is the victim of hacking too. My password was 7 characters, and a mix of upper and lower case, with some numbers thrown in to. I hardly think that's an easily brute forced password. Needless to say its been changed. "VanguardLH" wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > NeedsMet wrote: > <span style="color:green"> > > I have more than 1 hotmail account. I do not use my old @hotmail account > > anymore. Ive upgrade to a @live.com account. I checked my old account and it > > has been hacked. It had a auto vacation reply set to this company in Hong > > Kong.. > > > > Their contact email: stuff-market@live.cn. > > MSN:stuff-market@live.cn</span> > > It is not Microsoft's fault that you use an short and easily cracked > password using brute force methods. Change the password and this time > use a strong password. If your account gets hacked again, start > checking your host for a keylogger and start reconsidering if you use > your laptop at Internet cafes without using SSL for the connection to > the mail server. > </span> Quote
Guest Shenan Stanley Posted November 28, 2008 Posted November 28, 2008 Hacked wrote:<span style="color:blue"> > I just discovered my Hotmail account is the victim of hacking too. > > My password was 7 characters, and a mix of upper and lower case, > with some numbers thrown in to. I hardly think that's an easily > brute forced password. > > Needless to say its been changed.</span> Actually - yes - seven (7) characters is more easily hacked than eight (8) (not strickly because of the number of characters, but specifically the number of them being seven (7). A full fourteen (14) would also be fairly vulnerable to brute force, over fourteeen (14) characters... not so much.) I'd suggest 15+ characters. Afraid you cannot remember that many? !cann0tRemember <- That's a pretty strrong password. ;-) I don't suggest using it now that it is associated with you, however. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Quote
Guest Paul Adare Posted November 28, 2008 Posted November 28, 2008 On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:56:32 -0600, Shenan Stanley wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > Actually - yes - seven (7) characters is more easily hacked than eight (8) > (not strickly because of the number of characters, but specifically the > number of them being seven (7). A full fourteen (14) would also be fairly > vulnerable to brute force, over fourteeen (14) characters... not so much.)</span> You're getting a Hotmail password confused with LanMan hashes. There's no truth to what you state above unless you're referring to LanMan hashes. -- Paul Adare MVP - Identity Lifecycle Manager http://www.identit.ca Quote
Guest Shenan Stanley Posted November 29, 2008 Posted November 29, 2008 > Actually - yes - seven (7) characters is more easily hacked than<span style="color:blue"> > eight (8) (not strickly because of the number of characters, but > specifically the number of them being seven (7). A full fourteen > (14) would also be fairly vulnerable to brute force, over > fourteeen (14) characters... not so much.)</span> Paul Adare wrote:<span style="color:blue"> > You're getting a Hotmail password confused with LanMan hashes. > There's no truth to what you state above unless you're referring to > LanMan hashes.</span> Then it has been a good holiday to me. vbg I'd still bet a fifteen character+ password would still be harder to brute force (see the person I was responding to - they specified that method) than a seven character one in almost all cases. Particularly a properly composed one (at least three of the coveted four: lowercase, upercase, symbol and number.) In any case - it is doubtful the (referred to) hotmail passwords were hacked by any other means than simple deception/knowledgable guessing in some form. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Quote
Guest Gary.Blevins Posted December 11, 2008 Posted December 11, 2008 FYI, My HM accnt was just hacked with the same result today. In addition to the auto-reply with links to some odd site, they also sent out the same reply to all my contacts. My password was pretty weak, especially considering I am in the business. I am not sure if it was a brute force crack, or possibly a keylogger on some machine I used at some time in the past. The text of the message: hi: Heya, how are you doing recently ? I would like to introduce you a very good company which I knew. Their company homepage is www.sugefac.com. They can offer you all kinds of electronical products which you need, such as motorcycles, laptops, mobile phones, digial cameras, TV LCD,xbox, ps3, gps, MP3/4, etc. Please take some time to have a look at it, there must be something you 'd like to purchase. Their contact email: sugefac@188.com. MSN: sugefac@hotmail.com TEL: +8610-80973507 Hope you have a good mood in shopping from their company! Regards end - text Regards, Gary "NeedsMet" wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > I have more than 1 hotmail account. I do not use my old @hotmail account > anymore. Ive upgrade to a @live.com account. I checked my old account and it > has been hacked. It had a auto vacation reply set to this company in Hong > Kong.. > > Their contact email: stuff-market@live.cn. > MSN:stuff-market@live.cn > </span> Quote
Guest Tom [Pepper] Willett Posted December 11, 2008 Posted December 11, 2008 Congratulations! You have now given great assistance to the spammer by posting the spam here...now it will propogate all over usenet for eternity!! "Gary.Blevins" <GaryBlevins@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3A1D14F3-F610-4FC6-80D7-80B9D361CBEC@microsoft.com... : FYI, My HM accnt was just hacked with the same result today. In addition to : the auto-reply with links to some odd site, they also sent out the same reply : to all my contacts. : : My password was pretty weak, especially considering I am in the business. I : am not sure if it was a brute force crack, or possibly a keylogger on some : machine I used at some time in the past. : : The text of the message: : : Quote
Guest DutchTouch1 Posted January 8, 2009 Posted January 8, 2009 "NeedsMet" wrote: Yep, Same hack on my @hotmail acct. A bogus phishing spam em is sent out to the entire address book from my acct, address book is wiped out and the vacation notification is turned on (and cannot be turned off, nor content erased) Oh, crap! When creating strong pw's, remember that there are many businesses and websites whose IT mgrs still limit number of characters, or require a certain combination of letters, numbers, etc. That becomes so cumbersome to remember all the restrictions, it forces people to record them some place...and now there is another security risk...'whoops, lost my daytimer/treo/wallet/laptop...'. Oh, bother. Hope someone can find the jerks doing this and nail them to a wall. DT1 <span style="color:blue"> > I have more than 1 hotmail account. I do not use my old @hotmail account > anymore. Ive upgrade to a @live.com account. I checked my old account and it > has been hacked. It had a auto vacation reply set to this company in Hong > Kong.. > > Their contact email: stuff-market@live.cn. > MSN:stuff-market@live.cn > </span> Quote
Guest carlos Posted February 18, 2009 Posted February 18, 2009 please somebody let me now if this company its reaaly true, but im interested in the wholesalers im preocuoy for being cheated "NeedsMet" wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > I have more than 1 hotmail account. I do not use my old @hotmail account > anymore. Ive upgrade to a @live.com account. I checked my old account and it > has been hacked. It had a auto vacation reply set to this company in Hong > Kong.. > > Their contact email: stuff-market@live.cn. > MSN:stuff-market@live.cn > </span> Quote
Guest Tom [Pepper] Willett Posted February 18, 2009 Posted February 18, 2009 Hong Kong should tell you your answer. "carlos" <carlos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:9B2C8A99-8BEE-4E19-B871-D758A4479CE6@microsoft.com... : please somebody let me now if this company its reaaly true, but im interested : in the wholesalers im preocuoy for being cheated : : : "NeedsMet" wrote: : : > I have more than 1 hotmail account. I do not use my old @hotmail account : > anymore. Ive upgrade to a @live.com account. I checked my old account and it : > has been hacked. It had a auto vacation reply set to this company in Hong : > Kong.. : > : > Their contact email: stuff-market@live.cn. : > MSN:stuff-market@live.cn : > Quote
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