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I just recived an email and text that my account had suspicious activity. Great right, they protected my account?

No! I checked my account activity and its been accessed 8 times from other countries in the last 30days!

Good thing it's just a dummy email account.

Great security Microsoft!  ???

I stopped using Hotmail since Gmail introduced 2FA.

A friend of mine recently had his account accessed from various places and his password reset. Took him weeks to get control of his account back.

Not a fan of their scanning all emails though ...

I stopped once I was invited to Gmail before it was released.

What are you using right now?

I don't understand how they waited on sending me the info for almost a month.

yes , that's a different issue altogether but you can use PGP to protect yourself from privy eyes.

I use Outlook which is another email service by Microsoft, and I have never received suspicious activity.

The lapse in security was almost certainly on your end. If they have your email password then I'd be careful with your coins and make sure your comp is safe.


Isn't Outlook just the renamed Hotmail?

Hotmail is mainly used by homosexuals as per statistics

I am using outlook its great

IMO outlook sucks. When you log in it can take minutes before you can even open the mails, or well, do anything at all.
I'm not a fan of using google stuff either, but at least Gmail doesn't take minutes to work.

BTW, as hilariousandco said, the security problem was probably on your end, not on Microsofts.

I personally use gmail or yahoo. After hearing this wont use gmail hehe  :-X

My gmail was hacked once in the past, got it resolved very quickly and never happened again. That was back before they had 2FA.

I wouldn't be so confident that Microsoft doesn't scan emails.

Hotmail's spying. End of the story.

Happened to me too, they changed password and secondary email recovery option - BUT forgot to change the SMS recovery option.

Now happily on 2FA for most of my gmail accounts.

There was a time when I can access Hotmail via Outlook Express IMAP. When they stopped it, I stopped using them. I used yahoo for a bit, then switched over to gmail. I liked gmail when I first started using it because of the 1G mail storage while everyone else was at 100M or so.

I'm major on security which is why each email has a unique long password. I blame MS, I never used that email nor log in to check it,  everything was forwarded.

i don't use hotmail because i wasn't born in the 1950's. especially since i had so much junk/spam in my e-mail.

Yeah, but long passwords won't mean shit for keyloggers. It's weird then. I can't see how it was a lapse on hotmail's end. There must've been someplace or somehow you slipped up.

I find hotmail aka outlook to be the best. Never had any issues with them, and I love the sweeping feature.

I use both since one came before the other and one is legacy and one is not
Although both I feel spy on me equally mumble
Then theirs Yahoo

A lot of people do, so don't beat yourself up about it. There are a lot of reasons not to, for example, if you know a password has been compromised, you don't have to change it in a dozen different places. Most importantly though, you don't want to put your email's (or even worse, bank's) security in a 3rd party's (like a job site) hands.

Here I proclaim you No_Outlook_Problems the First!

Wait a second when you people say "hotmail" are you really talking about the relatively new Microsoft Outlook webmail? I have been experimenting with that and like it just fine.

Yes hotmail is now outlook but everybody still calls it hotmail. Works fine for me too.

You are really popular! hacked about 8 times? (You don't use proxies,right? ) , don't blame it all on them though and you better scan/change similar passwords as I doubt this is a hotmail vulnerability.

Did you mean hotmail is now outlook?

Yeah lol I'll change it now. (congrats on your 1000 post BTW).

Oh shit I hit 1000 posts? What's my reward LOL... (and actually how did you even know that? All i see is 'activity level' under users' names, I don't see a post count.)

I used yahoo in 2000-2004, after that I started using gmail in early 2005,(I hacked someone's email,and invited myself) :P, since then I made alot accounts and I'm still using gmail.

Too easily hack able, poor features, primitive social integration, in short useless

It's not bad compares to mine where I had several fan art pictures of Runescape and screenshot and then blocking out your friend's names there.........../////////

Well Hotmail was not secure and it's probably still not secure as gmail.
Check temper data exploit, several thousand accounts got hacked that time.

http://www.securitytube.net/video/5125
http://samehsabry.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/8-steps-to-compromise-any-hotmail-account/

that hack was widely exploited by the underground communities before it became known to public .

That exploit was back in 2012. Don't think that's relevant anymore.
Hotmail was not vulnerable to the heartbleed bug btw. Gmail was.

Yeah Because Windows/IIS doesn't use SSL.

Neither am I, which is why I've stuck with hotmail/outlook.  I assume though that all the emails are scanned no matter who you use.

I used gmail for a while but found it to be a pain in the ass, I also had my account suspended. Couldn't be bothered to get the account back after that.

Someone logged in 8 times this month from different locations. Could be because they're using Tor. No need for me to worry, that password is out dated and no other accounts share it.

Like I previously stated that email was forwarded over a year ago,  haven't logged in since. MS is at fault since their 2FA failed to protect the account.

My computer is scanned daily and clean,  programs I don't trust are run through sand box after being scanned.

Changing the password was a very good thing to do, but I'd also recommend running a full antimalware and antivirus scan to make sure they didn't lift the credentials off of your computer. I'd recommend Malwarebytes Free and SuperAntiSpyware Free for this.

Yeah I did a full scan while in dos and then in safe mode all was clear.

Also added 2fa just to see if anyone else is going to try and access the account again.

I use a few virus and malware scanners including Malwarebytes, I learned long ago not all are created or dated equally the same.

i am not used to use hotmail and it is not friendly user. i prefer gmail and ymail.

I prefer gmail and yahoo mail so I don't use hotmail.

Hm that is really weird.
I did not know for such problems.
Try to report that. They must fix those security fails.

Sad story.
Only gmail.

me too....really sad story...

i cant stop using hotmail because it has my first and oldest account ,, so i have to keep dragging it with me ,, tried getting the same id on gmail but couldnt ,

A good deal of the reason why I haven't dropped my gmail address is the simple fact that it would be a nightmare to update every place that has that listed as my email address and I'd surely lose some contacts and such in the shuffle. My gmail has become a spamfest; every few months I have to basically go on a campaign of getting unsubscribed from newsletters and crap just to keep it manageable...

Hotmails are pretty easy to crack. I never personally used them for anything. In the days of Xronize, I remember we used to just type random ID's and try to see how many  we could crack.

Thats why I use gmail instead, but why do people say gmail sucks also? Have no problem with gmail so far...

Hotmail sucks, i use gmail too i have no problem with it what so ever but i have heard people
say it's not secure enough do not upload any business related attachments with it.
I still don't get why.

Lol some of that is your mistake (you had a spy program or used your pass on a non-secure site most likely) but they should implement a system like Google/Yahoo that prevent you from login and asks for Security question/Phone when you login from a new country.

Sorry you're wrong the system was clean and like I had mentioned I hadn't accessed that account in over a year.

Gmail is the best. I've been using them since they were beta testing and you had to be invited.

I use gmail it is pretty good for me, no problem so far. It does not bother me that they at google read and spy your mails anymore. (Microsoft does that too, so whatever)

It's almost common place that we're spied upon everyday. If not our emails, its our text, calls, facebook, twitter, forum comments. The list goes on..they keep collecting until they find a reason to use it.

Truth. Sad truth, but still. A few years ago before Sno.wden and WikiL eaks, what you just said would have gotten you labeled a "nutcase conspi.racy theorist." There is definitely no privacy left in mainstream products/society, but it can be accomplished. Everyday they try to shut down part of anonymity, on the web and elsewhere. That is why everyone must call/write/lobby against CISPA, SOPA, and any others that will follow.

Anyways, on topic- I also use a hotmail email account for most everything. Same reason a few of you have said already, I've had it forever and it's just rolled with me through time. I expect no real privacy, and most major accounts have some form of 2FA.
What is a good place for me to start learning about and getting an encr.ypted email service?

I didnt even notice that people still use hotmail still.

I thought everyone moved on to gmail? lol. But yeah, that does suck if you were using the hotmail as primary not dummy account.

Security issues, and personal information... all that stuff esp identity theft.

That last time I used any other mail service other than the gmail was way back in 2006. (That was a Yahoo account anyway, never ever used Hotmail in my life). That said, is there any reason why we should use Hotmail? Is it having any additional features which the Gmail is lacking?

I went to gmail and never looked back.  I just use yahoo for junk mail.   ;D

step 2 verification is a good facility of gmail  thats why i like to use it :)

Gmail is more convenient to use and very secure compared to different free web based email services.

Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo mail; same shit, different package. Every one of those is spying on you, so why use any of them?

Because they provide a convenient, free webmail and if you don't have anything sketchy that you need to hide in your email, what difference does it really make...?