Hello. I've just had a hacker get into my Hotmail account and send a spam to everyone on my contacts list. My Mac is iMac, running on OSX Tiger. has anyone else had anything similar?
Contact Hotmail. If you still have access to the account you can export the contacts, if you don't, you can use the forgot your password help they have. There's nothing Mac related to the problem though (just in case the other posts didn't make that clear).I had the same problem,
And I really don't mind them messing around with mijn account there is no important information on there anyway but I would like to get my contacts back...
Any suggestions?
I used to get hotmail passwords when i was in high school (i was a little immature and bored...).
the way I did it (and hope maybe you can avoid it this way), is I created an website that looked identical to hotmail's. then I'd bookmark it in the browsers bookmark bar. when people came to use the computer, a lot of them just clicked the bookmark, and typed in their username/password into the fields on MY page. upon click the submit button, i'd have the site send their info my my own email, and then the site would redirect them to the real hotmail page - so it just looked like a hotmail error. they'd log in a second time and it would work as normal.
sounds stupid, but it worked. (i dont do that anymore)
They probably cracked your password using a program. Has nothing to do with your mac.