Reddit User Discovers Hotmail Phishing Scam
The user’s nickname “Roddds” discovered the stolen information after investigating a phishing message that was personally received.
When a user of the social news sharing platform Reddit decided to investigate if a phishing message he’d received had actually worked, he discovered it had. A little bit of sleuthing revealed more than 47,000 stolen identities from Hotmail.com and MSN.com, all available for anyone to see.
The user’s nickname “Roddds” discovered the stolen information after investigating a phishing message that he received personally.
“Earlier today, I received one of those run-of-the-mill phishing emails,” Roddds explained in a Reddit post.
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