Some Hotmail Accounts Wiped 298
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from the you-didn't-need-that,-right? dept.
tomhudson writes "PC Magazine reports that many Hotmail accounts have lost all their emails. Users' entire email histories have apparently been lost. 'Users can still log in sans issue. However, they arrive at empty inboxes: No custom folders, no messages in "Sent" or "Deleted," nothing. As one might expect, the abruptness (and unexpectedness) of the purge has left some of Hotmail's long-time users a bit in the dark.'"
What happened? (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe they finally tried to switch Hotmail over to Windows NT...
Re:That's what I was going to say (Score:5, Funny)
Besides, isn't it called something terrible these days like "Windows Live Hotmail"?
Well apparently with this new "upgrade" they're changing the name to Windows Dead Hotmail.
Re:"sans issue" (Score:4, Funny)
Re:"sans issue" (Score:3, Funny)
Obviously it was a security breach, which is why they called the SANS [sans.org] institute to help figure it out.
Re:That's what I was going to say (Score:3, Funny)
Besides, isn't it called something terrible these days like "Windows Live Hotmail"? Once more showing That things connected to "Windows" is a data loss risk.
Windows Active Live Visual Hotmail .Net 7 Personal Edition
Data loss is just not an issue with The Cloud! (Score:5, Funny)
Wait a minute. I'm a manager, and I've been reading a lot of case studies and watching a lot of webcasts about The Cloud. Based on all of this glorious marketing literature, I, as a manager, have absolutely no reason to doubt the safety of any data put in The Cloud.
The case studies all use words like "secure", "MD5", "RSS feeds" and "encryption" to describe the security of The Cloud. I don't know about you, but that sounds damn secure to me! Some Clouds even use SSL and HTTP. That's rock solid in my book.
And don't forget that you have to use Web Services to access The Cloud. Nothing is more secure than SOA and Web Services, with the exception of perhaps SaaS. But I think that Cloud Services 2.0 will combine the tiers into an MVC-compliant stack that uses SaaS to increase the security and partitioning of the data.
My main concern isn't with the security of The Cloud, but rather with getting my Indian team to learn all about it so we can deploy some first-generation The Cloud applications and Web Services to provide the ultimate platform upon which we can layer our business intelligence and reporting, because there are still a few verticals that we need to leverage before we can move to The Cloud 2.0.
Re:Save thy emails by downloading them. (Score:4, Funny)
"I use crowd based storage."
I tried that for my beer. It didn't work out.
Re:Long term hotmail users? (Score:2, Funny)
I've taken the extra step of not only forwarding all email received by my Hotmail account to my Gmail account. I also forward all mail received by my Gmail account to my Hotmail account. Although, shortly after implementing this strategy, I've noticed a lot of duplicate emails in each inbox and my mailboxes keep filling up. It's not even SPAM, it's just the same messages being repeated over and over and over again.
Re:That's what I was going to say (Score:5, Funny)