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My hotmail addy has been hacked, I opened a link on an email fromsomeone I know well & my computer started sending emails continuosly. I signed out but then couldnt get back in. Hotmail have frozen the account & asked for a lot of information about mY addy to identify me, but I cant remember any of it
any ideas please

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Hi Robert, that happened to me about a year ago and the problem disappeared immediately I changed my email password.

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What's an addy?

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I expect it means email address Twizard.

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Not another colloquialism then?

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I colluded with a collection of colloquial ...........oh it's too late for meaningful Alliteration.

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Same here - my hotmail address was compromised earlier this year and I had to reset the password. I got a load of spam for a while, mostly bogus "message undeliverable" emails looking very like the real thing. They slowly disappeared and my hotmail account now seems fine. I was told they have had some large phishing attacks recently. See here:

http://www.maravis.com/hotmail-accounts-compromised/

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Just interested to know the type of password that got hacked (not what they actually were). Were they proper words with perhaps a few numbers/dates added that you could remember in your head? For example: Beano1955

Or were they the sort of passwords that you'd never remember and could only copy/paste from a text file into the password entry box? For example: Q3q2rEoQuJ9/P

If the first type, then I think you can pretty much expect it to get hacked at sometime or another. If the second type, then I suppose there's no hope for any of us.

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THanks for your responses.

IT took me 6 hours to sort it out.


Tired now

I was helped online by HOTMAIL's chat help.
DItto VIRGIN

all excellent

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That happened to me a couple of years ago with my AOL email. I had opened an attachment from someone I knew, and it put a virus in that email account. The person did not knowingly send the virus. I will no longer open attachments from anyone, not worth it.