Ars Technica has an article over the background behind Hotmail and how it aquired the stigma it has since its purchase back in 1997 for $450 million. Over the years it served as a showcase for several types of failure, including the inability of Windows servers to work in production or to scale.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday January 02 2018, @07:11PM (1 child)
I have several hundreds of Yahoo addresses that I haven't looked at for years. They could even be gone for all I know. Last I checked (about 2016) the few that I tried still were there and could be logged in.
When several high profile breaches of Yahoo email occurred, it led me to wonder:
* what percent of my email accounts are affected? (not that I care)
* what percent of the hacked email accounts are mine? (not that I care)
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by frojack on Tuesday January 02 2018, @07:47PM
Various of those providers have powered up two factor authentication - for those accounts you care even a little bit about.
I had old yahoo account hacked/stolen and used by a guy in India. He changed the password.
It took him a year to realized that I had it set up to forward a copy to another account, and was reading his mail to his girlfriend in the UK?
Who steals free email accounts? This was years before the widely published breaches.
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