PC Pro Editor Takes The Microsoft Challenge and Gets Hacked

This guy, Barry Collins, gets challenged by Microsoft to try Hotmail, has a good time with it, and at the last minute his account gets hacked. He then writes his entire story to revolve around this hacking incident, which he describes as compromising the majority of his online accounts.

Hotmail does have a reputation for getting hacked, much more so than Gmail, but I don't think this has much to do with the service itself. It has far more to do with the expertise of it's users, and the things they do online.

 The simple fact that all Barry's accounts were compromised points to him using the same password everywhere. Someone could have easily mined his password from a different service and used it here.


This is just Bogus, if your story is going to be about hotmail's lack of security, why not back it up with some data? and why not cover more of the rest of your experience?


Read More: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2012/04/25/moving-from-gmail-to-hotmail-the-disastrous-conclusion/