Password details of Hotmail leaked online

Submitted by admin on 5 October 2009 - 11:43pm

windowsliveAccording to unofficial information obtained by the Neowin, password details to thousands of email accounts in Windows Live Hotmail were published on the Internet.

Earlier this month, logins and passwords to thousands of accounts appeared on the pastebin.com site, which is used by developers to share code snippets. These data have already been removed, but according to the Neowin, they allowed to log into the correct mailboxes. The list contained more than 10 thousand logins and passwords to user accounts, probably from Europe.