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Microsoft admits: Yes, miscreants leafed through some Hotmail, MSN, Outlook inboxes after support rep pwned

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Email contents exposed for unlucky punters
Microsoft says miscreants accessed some of its customers’ webmail inboxes and account data after a support rep’s administrative account was hijacked.
The Redmond software giant has sent Hotmail, MSN, and Outlook cloud users notifications that the unnamed customer support rep’s account was compromised by hackers who would have subsequently gained «limited access» to certain parts of some customer email accounts, including the ability to read messages in particular cases.
In the alert, Microsoft warns its punters that, between January 1 and March 28 of this year, the attacker, or attackers, would have had the ability to extract certain information from their inboxes, including the subject names of messages, folder names, contact lists, and user email address.

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