Thousands of Hotmail e-mail accounts compromised as a result of massive Internet phishing scam. Microsoft: “Several thousand Windows Live Hotmail customers’ credentials were exposed on a third-party site” Microsoft said the criminals who breached users’ Hotmail accounts did so without penetrating the company’s servers. Phishing involves tricking Internet users into providing passwords and other sensitive data to Web sites that mimic in almost every detail the legitimate sites operated by banks, online retailers, and other businesses that offer e-commerce services.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/microsoft-blocks-hacked-hotmail-accounts