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An ethical hacker has claimed that there was nothing that Microsoft and Google could have done about the much-publicised phishing attacks that have hit their email services - and that it has happened many times in the past.
Ethical hacker and digital forensics investigator Neil O’Neil, of secure payments company the Logic Group, made that conclusion after examining the first 10,000 phished Hotmail passwords.
Speaking to IT PRO, he explained that these types of phishing incidents were common, but that in this case the damage was made worse when the location of the passwords were made public public, after someone posted them on pastebin.com.
O’Neil said it was one of the first times that an actual list of phished accounts have been made public, but added that while 10,000 accounts may sound like a big number, it was a drop in the ocean compared to the over 300 million Hotmail accounts.
“It could have been someone looking for kudos or press, two hackers falling out – a lot of the time people are doing it just because they can. They love to bloody nose names like Microsoft and Google,” he said.
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