CNET has reported that there have been certain hacking cases with some hotmail accounts of some people they know. To the extent that some hotmail users have got locked out of their accounts for sometime, with the result that distress emails (asking for money) from their accounts have been sent to people in their mailing list. The distress emails appear to be coming from the original account holder.
One such email was found to explain how a user got robbed of his money while at a hotel in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. The email ended with the user asking for a loan of $1,500 just to settle the hotel bill and to return home. Reportedly, upon contacting the original account holder, he was found to be safe at his home. Microsoft hasn’t commented on the issue, except in another case, wherein a hotmail user who found himself locked out of his hotmail account contacted Microsoft support staff, and after filling up a form and exchanging a couple of messages for a significant amount of time, was told that if he’d been careful in the first place, the problem wouldn’t have arisen.
