Has anyone ever seen Microsoft confirm a problem with Hotmail itself being "hacked"? I have an account with Hotmail I don't use and haven't done since 2007, I logged in recently to discover it had been sending spam emails. Every single person I know with an active or inactive Hotmail account has the same problem.
I have several old accounts, I just logged into a few and they haven't sent any mails. I have family that use Hotmail and don't get spam from them either.
Maybe you and your circle all happened to use some of those other big profile sites (Gawker, Sony, etc.) that have had their e-mails and password lists stolen...
Hm, how strange. I've not used the account for anything other than msn, a google search for it only yields results from 2 forums where I've posted it (in "add your msn" topics) from ~2006 and the password is what was used for a variety of other things at the time, none of which were "hacked", so I always assumed it was the result of an internal Hotmail breach. How strange, maybe it was just me and my friends then. Confirmation bias at work...
