FC: Hotmail security hole exposed; Microsoft takes Hotmail offline

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,36241,00.html

Hole Exposes Hotmail Email
by Declan McCullagh (declan () wired com)

3:00 a.m. May. 10, 2000 PDT
A new security hole in Microsoft's Hotmail service allows enterprising 
snoops to browse your email messages without a password.

If a Hotmail user clicks on an attachment that contains a Javascript Trojan 
horse, an attacker can read, send, and delete messages from that person's 
account.

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http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,36249,00.html

Hotmail Down Due to Hole
by Declan McCullagh (declan () wired com)

11:35 a.m. May. 10, 2000 PDT
Microsoft took its popular Hotmail service offline Wednesday morning so 
company technicians could fix a security hole that exposed users' email.

Accounts at Hotmail, which bills itself as the world's largest free email 
service with over 50 million subscribers, were unreachable from around 8 
a.m. to noon PDT Wednesday.

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