Amount of Spam mail gone through the roof all of a sudden

[dogegg]

Hi,

I have a hotmail account added to my phone as well as others but overnight, the amount of spam mail I've got coming through has shot up. I am trying to cut down the uses for this hotmail account so I can get rid of it so I don't usually receive much mail through it. This morning I had over 50 spam emails though.

Anyone know of any change that may have caused this or any setting that I can switch to stop?

Easiest solution probably is to just delete the mailbox but wanted to make sure there wasn't any security issue that ay have caused this.

Thanks

 

[mds1256]

This is weird as this has happened to me too, started around 8:30pm last night and this morning had over 60 spam messages in my Hotmail account, usually I get around 5 per week. seems to have stopped at the moment but will keep an eye on it, wonder if Microsoft had an issue.....

 

[dogegg]

Just found this http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/1/11827310/microsoft-outlook-hotmail-email-spam-june-2016

That'll be the reason why then.