Thousands of Microsoft Windows Live Email passwords leaked online

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Sometime over this past weekend, several thousand Hotmail/MSN/Windows Live passwords were leaked online through a third-party. If you have an email account at one of these places, I’d highly recommend you go ahead and change your password. It appears most of the usernames whose passwords were posted online were in the A and B range, but it’s good practice to change your passwords frequently, anyway.

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