{"id":1548,"date":"2019-04-15T12:32:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T12:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technology-solved.com\/huntsville-al\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2023-07-17T22:25:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T02:25:26","slug":"hackers-accessed-outlook-com-hotmail-and-msn-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technology-solved.com\/huntsville-al\/hackers-accessed-outlook-com-hotmail-and-msn-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Accessed Outlook.com, Hotmail and MSN Emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has acknowledged a major breach of its Outlook.com service that left a portion of its user base at risk of having their emails read by hackers. And MSN and Hotmail users are reportedly affected, too.<\/p>\n<div id=\"1555331406338\" class=\"img-zoom-container\">\n<div id=\"1555331406338-3\" class=\"img-zoom-sub\"><span class=\"imgCaption\">Credit: Microsoft<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"img-zoom-sub\">On Friday, Microsoft started sending notifications to\u00a0some of its Outlook.com users, informing them that a hacker for a period of nearly three months had the ability to view their email addresses, see their subject lines, and determine the names of their folders. In that earlier notification, according to\u00a0<a class=\"hawk-link-parsed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/4\/15\/18311112\/microsoft-outlook-web-email-hack-response-comment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Verge<\/a>, Microsoft didn&#8217;t make any mention of hackers being able to see email contents.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"hawk-link-parsed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/ywyz3x\/hackers-could-read-your-hotmail-msn-outlook-microsoft-customer-support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Motherboard<\/a>\u00a0on Sunday, however, said that Microsoft issued a separate notification to about 6 percent of its Outlook.com users, telling them that in addition to the information above, hackers might have also seen their actual email contents. MSN and Hotmail accounts were also hacked, according to Motherboard.<\/p>\n<p>According to Microsoft, one of its support technicians had their credentials stolen by hackers, allowing them to break into the service and access the company&#8217;s Web mail. The hack continued from Jan. 1 to Mar. 28 before it was finally discovered and turned off, according to Microsoft. Earlier reports had said that the hack lasted for six months, but Microsoft denied those claims in a statement to The Verge. The company also acknowledged the dual attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur notification to the majority of those impacted noted that bad actors would not have had unauthorized access to the content of emails or attachments,\u201d a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement. &#8220;A small group (~6 percent of the original, already limited subset of consumers) was notified that the bad actors could have had unauthorized access to the content of their email accounts, and was provided with additional guidance and support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The attack appears to be confined to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/us\/7-tips-email-account-hacked,news-17623.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft&#8217;s Web mail accounts<\/a>, Hotmail, and MSN emails,\u00a0and not those associated with offline versions of the software. Corporate users who use their own domains for email were also unaffected by the hack, it would appear.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft hasn&#8217;t said exactly how many users were affected and what the hacker might have done with the data they might have accessed. The company did say, however, that the hack has been addressed and users are no longer being targeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has acknowledged a major breach of its Outlook.com service that left a portion of its user base at risk of having their emails read by hackers. And MSN and Hotmail users are reportedly affected, too. Credit: Microsoft On Friday, Microsoft started sending notifications to\u00a0some of its Outlook.com users, informing them that a hacker for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hackers Accessed Outlook.com, Hotmail and MSN Emails - Computer Troubleshooters Huntsville<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Microsoft has acknowledged a major breach of its Outlook.com service that left a portion of its user base at risk of having their emails read by hackers.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technology-solved.com\/huntsville-al\/hackers-accessed-outlook-com-hotmail-and-msn-emails\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hackers Accessed Outlook.com, Hotmail and MSN Emails - 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