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by angry-hacker
3437 days ago
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It is much harder nowadays, but around 2000 every Hotmail account was protected only by these easy one sentence questions. It was trivial to open accounts if you wanted to. Favorite football club, pets name - - just ask the target. I remember I was young and was wondering why is it so easy to 'hack' Hotmail. |
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And it was left like this for at least 12 hours after it was first reported in media...
http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/30/hotmail.03/
https://slashdot.org/story/99/08/30/1324206/hotmail-cracked-...