Hotmail Account Hacked

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Sandyman

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My hotmail account was hacked last week and everyone in my address book received
mail saying I was in Spain & had been mugged & was in desperate need for funds.
Fortunately all my friends & contacts knew me well enough to see through the scam.
I have been unable to recover the account and using MS recovery just sends you round in circles. I have searched the net for ways & methods to recover it but got no where.
One thing i did learn is just how easy it is for these bar stewards to hack hotmail accounts.
So Hotmail users beware. Apparently there is a way of using G-Mail which is beyond the hackers. Indeed it was someone with a G-Mail account that hacked my Hotmail. Even so, I would like to again take control of my Hotmail if only to get access to my address book, so if anyone out there knows a method of doing so I would be much obliged to hear from them.

PS. MS are effing usless. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
 
Dont know how to do it, but would recommend that you move this to the Lounge.

Hotmail is one of the biggest problems for fraud and has been for a long while - don't understand why anyone retains an accout with them when much better ones are available.
 
Sandyman said:
My hotmail account was hacked last week and everyone in my address book received
mail saying I was in Spain & had been mugged & was in desperate need for funds.
Fortunately all my friends & contacts knew me well enough to see through the scam.
I have been unable to recover the account and using MS recovery just sends you round in circles. I have searched the net for ways & methods to recover it but got no where.
One thing i did learn is just how easy it is for these bar stewards to hack hotmail accounts.
So Hotmail users beware. Apparently there is a way of using G-Mail which is beyond the hackers. Indeed it was someone with a G-Mail account that hacked my Hotmail. Even so, I would like to again take control of my Hotmail if only to get access to my address book, so if anyone out there knows a method of doing so I would be much obliged to hear from them.

PS. MS are effing usless. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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It was your computer, probably running a Microsoft product and inadequate protection, that was hacked - not your Hotmail account.
Browser e-mail tends to be far better protected than most people's personal systems.
And lest people believe that MacOS is inherently better protected than Win, that is not the case, it's just that not so much malware has been written, as yet, to exploit it.
 
charles_reed said:
And lest people believe that MacOS is inherently better protected than Win, that is not the case, it's just that not so much malware has been written, as yet, to exploit it.
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What an odd comment.

How do you know how much malware may or may not be in the pipeline?

You can only accurately state one thing, which is the current position - that the OP would not have had his system hacked had he had a Mac.
 
you should always have your own e-mail address in your contacts list , that way if it happens you'll know what has been sent to your contacts
 
I received the same sort of email (mugged in Spain etc) two days ago from a sailing friend who has a BT internet account, so don't blame Hotmail.
 
charles_reed said:
And lest people believe that MacOS is inherently better protected than Win, that is not the case, it's just that not so much malware has been written, as yet, to exploit it.
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Sorry, but that's nonsense.

Unlike Windows, MacOS and Linux have decent security models, so they aren't wide open to hacks, virus and trojans.
 
Talbot said:
Dont know how to do it, but would recommend that you move this to the Lounge.

Hotmail is one of the biggest problems for fraud and has been for a long while - don't understand why anyone retains an accout with them when much better ones are available.
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Thought I had posted in the Lounge !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Like you Talbot I do not know how to do it either. Was not aware of hacking problems with Hotmail hence I never considered there would ever be a problem.
 
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ratbag said:
you should always have your own e-mail address in your contacts list , that way if it happens you'll know what has been sent to your contacts
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Thanks for that. Wise in hindsight i guess. Wife is in mt contacts so saw what was sent out.
 
innesker said:
I received the same sort of email (mugged in Spain etc) two days ago from a sailing friend who has a BT internet account, so don't blame Hotmail.
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Not blaming Hotmail for this. What I am blaming is Hotmail for not helping me by restoring my
account access even when they have been made aware of the hack and received all my details to prove who I am and prove the account belongs to me.
 
One of our chums had the same problem and Hotmail was no help at all. He had to set up a new account and start all over again, compiling his address book as he went.

You can download your address book to a file on your computer - in "contacts" click on "manage" then "export". Not pretty, but works.
 
SimbaDog said:
Have you tried this?
https://security.live.com/acsr.aspx
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Thanks for that SimbaDawg. Yes indeed but again it got nowhere. Wondering how many millions of peeps around the world use Hotmail & are not aware how easy it can be hacked ?

The biggest problem is the loss of all my contacts, especially marine contacts, who probably now think I am rude in not replying to e-mails sent to me and I have no way of letting them all know what has happened.

No more Hotmail for me thats for sure and would now advise anyone still using it to be like me & look elsewhere. Apparently G-Mail is the route to go as you can make a password virtually un-hackable......................appreciate your comments on that. Ta v much.
 
AOL, Yahoo and Hotmail accounts have been viewed with the utmost suspicion by many for years now, including by me. I have, however, had a gmail account for a couple of years and it's worked really well. It's not perfect, but for something free and easy to set up and access and use, it's pretty good. I don't know specifically about their password security but you should develop your own complicated yet easy for you alone to remember, combination of upper and lower case, numbers and special characters.
 
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