Microsoft said Monday that several thousand Hotmail account credentials were posted online over the weekend. In a statement posted to its Windows Live Spaces blog, Microsoft said the company has determined that the data spill was not the result of a breach of internal Microsoft data, but rather was likely the haul from a phishing scheme. The company said the incident was likely to be a result of an online phishing attack on Hotmail accounts. Read the full story on Microsoft’s Windows Live Spokesman’s blog.
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