Anyone Using Hotmail?

[DanG]

Originally Posted by SeaHorse_Fanatic

Nope mine is fine. My account was hacked a few days ago, but that's been cleared up. Your's probably was hacked and instead of sending out spam, they changed your settings and spam you. Send a message to Hotmail & they'll work to change your password and set your acct. right.

Mine was hacked on the 4th of april. Apparently it's becoming more common, hacking them to send out spam.

Apparently all they need to do is run a script that constantly tries passwords. After a number of wrong ones, it will present you with a captcha code which once entered will let them continue trying passwords.
Why they don't have some of 15 or 30 minute lockout after filling out the captch box 2 or 3 times is beyond me.