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The “BBC World,” a specialist in the field of technology a new Revealed details about the incident of piracy, which exposed “Hot Mail” yesterday for stealing ten thousand user accounts.

The e-mail service has been the type of hacking is called phishing, as established by which the pirates exact copy of the site and then a financial institution are trying to fool the user access to personal data such as passwords, in his research to dictate the form on the fake website, allowing them to use these data to capture the funds.

The Web site quoted Bogdan Calin, an analyst in the field of electronic security as saying that among the most vulnerable words used are “123456″, “123456789″. Also found that 82 of the user between ten thousand, and put these two formulas, while occupied structures “12345678″ and “1234567″ and “111111″ list of ten most common words. Read the rest of this entry »

E-mail the famous “Hot Mail” was the biggest piracy in history, until it was e-mail system to Google’s “Gmail”, for the new act of piracy by the “Program of piracy and catching-mail,” but that Google has assured users of its service as quickly to maintain and fortify the affected accounts as a result of piracy program in question.

Google said that less than 500 account for people who use its service has been affected by the process of electronic piracy suffered by the location, adding that she asked the owners of the affected accounts to change their passwords or keys to access their accounts. Read the rest of this entry »