Microsoft blocked access to thousands of Hotmail accounts in response to hackers plundering password information and posting it online.
Cyber-crooks evidently used "phishing" tactics to dupe users of Microsoft's free Web-based email service into revealing account and access information, according to the US technology giant.
phishing is process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwoods and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy website.
If you have hotmail account, immediate change your password. Of course it's always a good practice to use strong password such as combination of letters (uppercase and lower case), numbers and even punctuations.
not only hotmail users should take precautions,,
ReplyDeletephishing is also rampant in some networking sites like facebook, friendster, yahoomail, etc..
a little piece of advice:
make it a habit to check the address bar before logging in into your account..
BEWARE ALSO of KEYLOGGERS..
check this one at http://f4c3t3r.0fees.net in the blog section subsection hackingprogramming..it is an online keylogger..