UK: Hotmail users advised to change passwords following information theft

Saw this in the Guardian and wanted to give everyone a heads up if you hadn't already seen it. 

Hotmail users are being advised to change their passwords, after thousands of account details were posted online.

A list containing more than 10,000 apparently genuine account names and passwords was posted to a website last week, where it remained until being spotted over the weekend by Microsoft security researchers.

The list, which has been seen by the Guardian, appears to be genuine.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/05/hotmail-password-change-microsoft

Thanks for this. I hadn't seen the article and hadn't heard anything about this. I changed mine just in case! Thanks!

According to gawker, this has not expanded to all the other webmail systems including GMail, but the good news is this is not a hack of the mail systems themselves but users who fell for some kind of a phishing scam and handed the informaton over themselves.