A cyber criminal stole thousands of passwords from Hotmail

Thousands of users' passwords popular MSN Hotmail service have been stolen and posted on the Internet, said Monday the online news site Neowin.net.
According to information collected after Neowin that other means in the network issued an Internet user data anonymous email accounts on 1 October at the pastebin.com blog, a forum used by software programmers.
The entry into the forum, which has now been erased, detailing the passwords of 10,000 mail accounts with Hotmail dominios@hotmail.com, @ live.com y@msn.com.
Accounts correspond to users with names that start with the letters "a" and "b" and most were located in Europe, adds Neowin.net.
Microsoft, which owns Hotmail, has not confirmed the existence of this list, but has acknowledged to reporters that it is verifying the information.
"We are currently investigating the situation and we will take appropriate steps as soon as possible," a Microsoft spokesman said the British news channel BBC News.
With nearly 300 million users, Windows Live Hotmail is one of the leading providers of free email service and was acquired by Microsoft in 1997, a year after its creation by some 400 million dollars.