| Register: Hacking Hotmail Made Easy
Some bright empiricist from Root-Core has discovered that anyone can log into their Hotmail account and then call messages from any other Hotmail account by crafting a URL with the second account's username and a valid message number. By Thomas C Greene. (August 20, 2001) |
| Slashdot: Another Hole in Hotmail
Article and discussion of HTML attachment attack. (May 10, 2000) |
| Slashdot: Hotmail Cracked Badly
Brief description of issue. (August 30, 1999) |
| Slashdot: Hotmail Hacked
This isn't the first time that the folks who are gonna give us a internet wide universal login system had a hole. News and discussion. (August 20, 2001) |
| Slashdot: Update: MS Says Hotmail "Security Issue" Resolved
News and discussion. (August 31, 1999) |
| TechTV: Hackers Discover Hotmail Hole
Hackers have discovered a security hole in Microsoft's free Hotmail email service that could allow intruders to read other people's messages. (August 20, 2001) |
| Techweb.com: Microsoft Hotmail Password Breach Exposed
Canadian engineers use JavaScript to show details of log-in information for the free e-mail service. (August 25, 1998) |
| Telepolis: Turning Tides
The significance of the Hotmail crack. Article by Felix Stalder linking the problems at Hotmail with the Sun purchase of Star Division. (September 2, 1999) |
| Wired: Did MS Dig Its Hotmail Hole?
The Hotmail security hole may have been an intentional backdoor that Microsoft built into its system for maintenance purposes, security experts said. By James Glave. (August 30, 1999) |
| Wired: Hotel Hotmail
As outages and service problems continue to plague Microsoft's free email service Hotmail, users who try to cancel their accounts may be in for a surprise: They can't. By Polly Sprenger. (March 22, 1999) |
