"Finally, if there were any kind of a security breach or problem, you know that Microsoft would be all over it as fast as is humanly possible - taking the service down if necessary to protect its customers.
So, no, I don't believe Hotmail has been hacked, or has any kind of infection"
I very much disagree with you. Hotmail finally admitted/confirmed that there was indeed a security breach and that someone had hacked into my account and was using my email address to send viruses to everyone in my contact list as well as any email addresses contained in messages in my inbox/folders. While my virus protection is updated, I have scanned my computer using the program suggested by MSN (nothing found), I have changed passwords and secret passwords on the account many times and have emptied out my entire hotmail account (contacts/messages). Despite this, messages are still going out several times a day to everyone (not just my contact list) - I know this because I am receiving the bounce backs from servers which have rejected the virus attachments as well as bounce backs from no longer valid addresses. I have been trying for three days to close the account entirely so that people at least will get a message saying the account is closed so people will know I have tried to take some action. Very serious breach - not just a random attack. I have since switched to gmail.
Posted by: KH at May 11, 2006 9:26 AM
Your account being hacked is NOT the same as the HotMail servers being hacked.
Posted by: Leo at May 11, 2006 6:56 PM
I do not know who is right, I do not want to argue with whom, I just want to get solution.
I have same problem as KH, even if I have not used
my Hotmail account for a couple of days.
It keeps sending some email to my contact list.
It is pretty buging me.
Do you guys have some solution or suggestion?
Thanks
Posted by: Jeff at January 4, 2007 2:04 PM
I keep getting an error message which keeps me from opening up email. But only on hotmail. I do not think hotmail has been hacked, I just can not open my email in my email account.
Dan [phone numbers removed]
Posted by: Dan V A at March 11, 2007 1:12 PM
1,600 personal emails in my hotmail account somehow recently "appeared" in the account of a boyfriend. How could this possibly have happened? They had no physical access to the computer (it was another friend's computer that I was using when this happened). My mind is blown away! Is this hotmail's fault?
Posted by: pm at May 18, 2007 1:37 AM
I disagree also about hotmail servers possibly vulnerable to attack, only because I do not believe in coincidences. Just this a.m., I tried to access hotmail and my av program told me there was a virus but it had been stopped before getting to my pc. (My acct. was open, but none of the mail was open) A scan revealed nothing, thankfully. Yet later the same morning, when I tried to even open hotmail, the server was suddenly unavailable. In 4 yrs of using hotmail, I don't remember a server for them ever being down when I tried to access it. Not to say it hasn't happened, just not to me. Now all of a sudden, just after my protection tells me somesthing's amiss, the server mysteriously goes down... I don't believe in coincidence.
Posted by: dlw at July 27, 2007 8:50 AM
I have had a hotmail account for years been usding it signing on this account many times, but when I go to sign now everything is in error and I know it is the right username and password but I am not told it is invalid, why?
Posted by: Gloria at July 28, 2008 9:41 PM
I tried to log into my email last night and it said my password was incorrect. I log into my account every day, multiple times a day and I know my password. I have no way to get it reset because I never set up any security questions. I sent Microsoft an email on the help site and am waiting for a response. However, from reading these boards, it looks like there are other people that have had this same problem.
Posted by: Karen at October 8, 2008 11:18 AM
My hotmail account problem is not from those spamsters imitating my "from" email but something else that no one seems to have mentioned yet. An ad to buy computers has invaded my email and pops up in my "send" or "reply" modes. I can delete it but it comes back. I can't tell if it is tacked on to my emails but I suspect that. I downloaded the html code but this tells me little --just that the code has become imbedded somewhere. Microsoft hasn't acknowledged my complaint. I won't use hotmail to send emails anymore. I'll use another account.
Posted by: Jenny Wrenn at December 16, 2008 4:36 PM
every time I pull up my email an icon appears telling me a virus is trying to get in the "back door". What do I do? I have full coverage with the AVG security system & it says no virus detected. Yet feom time to time an email gets through with x-rated title (which I do not open, I delete it.
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"Finally, if there were any kind of a security breach or problem, you know that Microsoft would be all over it as fast as is humanly possible - taking the service down if necessary to protect its customers.
So, no, I don't believe Hotmail has been hacked, or has any kind of infection"
I very much disagree with you. Hotmail finally admitted/confirmed that there was indeed a security breach and that someone had hacked into my account and was using my email address to send viruses to everyone in my contact list as well as any email addresses contained in messages in my inbox/folders. While my virus protection is updated, I have scanned my computer using the program suggested by MSN (nothing found), I have changed passwords and secret passwords on the account many times and have emptied out my entire hotmail account (contacts/messages). Despite this, messages are still going out several times a day to everyone (not just my contact list) - I know this because I am receiving the bounce backs from servers which have rejected the virus attachments as well as bounce backs from no longer valid addresses. I have been trying for three days to close the account entirely so that people at least will get a message saying the account is closed so people will know I have tried to take some action. Very serious breach - not just a random attack. I have since switched to gmail.
Posted by: KH at May 11, 2006 9:26 AMYour account being hacked is NOT the same as the HotMail servers being hacked.
Posted by: Leo at May 11, 2006 6:56 PMI do not know who is right, I do not want to argue with whom, I just want to get solution.
I have same problem as KH, even if I have not used
my Hotmail account for a couple of days.
It keeps sending some email to my contact list.
It is pretty buging me.
Do you guys have some solution or suggestion?
Thanks
Posted by: Jeff at January 4, 2007 2:04 PMI keep getting an error message which keeps me from opening up email. But only on hotmail. I do not think hotmail has been hacked, I just can not open my email in my email account.
Dan [phone numbers removed]
Posted by: Dan V A at March 11, 2007 1:12 PM1,600 personal emails in my hotmail account somehow recently "appeared" in the account of a boyfriend. How could this possibly have happened? They had no physical access to the computer (it was another friend's computer that I was using when this happened). My mind is blown away! Is this hotmail's fault?
Posted by: pm at May 18, 2007 1:37 AMI disagree also about hotmail servers possibly vulnerable to attack, only because I do not believe in coincidences. Just this a.m., I tried to access hotmail and my av program told me there was a virus but it had been stopped before getting to my pc. (My acct. was open, but none of the mail was open) A scan revealed nothing, thankfully. Yet later the same morning, when I tried to even open hotmail, the server was suddenly unavailable. In 4 yrs of using hotmail, I don't remember a server for them ever being down when I tried to access it. Not to say it hasn't happened, just not to me. Now all of a sudden, just after my protection tells me somesthing's amiss, the server mysteriously goes down... I don't believe in coincidence.
Posted by: dlw at July 27, 2007 8:50 AMI have had a hotmail account for years been usding it signing on this account many times, but when I go to sign now everything is in error and I know it is the right username and password but I am not told it is invalid, why?
Posted by: Gloria at July 28, 2008 9:41 PMI tried to log into my email last night and it said my password was incorrect. I log into my account every day, multiple times a day and I know my password. I have no way to get it reset because I never set up any security questions. I sent Microsoft an email on the help site and am waiting for a response. However, from reading these boards, it looks like there are other people that have had this same problem.
Posted by: Karen at October 8, 2008 11:18 AMMy hotmail account problem is not from those spamsters imitating my "from" email but something else that no one seems to have mentioned yet. An ad to buy computers has invaded my email and pops up in my "send" or "reply" modes. I can delete it but it comes back. I can't tell if it is tacked on to my emails but I suspect that. I downloaded the html code but this tells me little --just that the code has become imbedded somewhere. Microsoft hasn't acknowledged my complaint. I won't use hotmail to send emails anymore. I'll use another account.
Posted by: Jenny Wrenn at December 16, 2008 4:36 PMevery time I pull up my email an icon appears telling me a virus is trying to get in the "back door". What do I do? I have full coverage with the AVG security system & it says no virus detected. Yet feom time to time an email gets through with x-rated title (which I do not open, I delete it.
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