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Originally posted by Zui
I haven't been on any of those sorts of sites, nothing out of the ordinary. And when I go to change my pass it says it's been entered too many times -.0
Read and follow the instructions here:
http://windowslivehelp.com/solutions/accounts/arc...s-been-stolen.aspx
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Originally posted by shenshang
its not phishing. its microsofts fault for such a poor encryption that when the information was being transfered to a new server, the information leaked. only accounts beginning from a and b are affected.
First of all, it was because of phising!
More precisly it was an email scam where phising emails were send to people with the request to reply with their login and password (because "otherwise their account would be deleted" or other but similar kind of rubbish).
It had absolutely nothing todo with data being transfered from one server to the other, nor with any encryption. It was simply because all those people actually answered those phising emails with their password and login.
Nor Microsoft, nor Google (also Gmail accounts were targeted and effected by this scam) had anything todo with this.
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Second, there were far more accounts affected than just the ones starting with a or b (or whatever), but only those starting with a or b (or whatever) were published on pastebin.
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