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Re: password changed on hotmail address
From: Brian Erdelyi <brian_erdelyi () yahoo com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:46:23 -0300
I know Yahoo! Can recover an email account. If you fail the secret question you can still provide other information used during registration or even providing email addresses of people you regularly communicate with. You still haven't stated wether you have tried to contact the ex employee or Hotmail. On Jul 12, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Paul Asadoorian <paul () pauldotcom com> wrote:
I believe this sets a really bad precedent. I've seen similar cases like this in the past, and we all come to the same conclusion that there just may be no way to recover your email account. (Unless you steal a high profile person's email account, like Sarah Palin). This means, if someone can guess you email account password or security question answers, they can access your email and change the password to lock you out. This can't be the case, can it? Its essentially saying that someone can break into your house/shed/car, change the locks, and then its not yours anymore. There has to be some path to re-claim your email account, via the ISP, law enforcement, and the service provider... Cheers, Paul On 7/12/11 8:29 AM, Aaron Melton wrote:Bert, Good advice: Don't make a point, make a difference. :) Aaron On 7/12/11 3:01 AM, Bert Van Kets wrote:Thanks for the information guy.Looks like my customer is pretty much out of luck. She had already tried to guess the password and go through the reset password process. No luck there. She also has gone to the police to file a complaint.I'll break the news gently and inform her she's been pretty stupid and has to bear the consequences.BertOn 11/07/2011 22:04, Brian Erdelyi wrote:I'm not going to lecturer about using hotmail accounts for business. 1. Contact the employee for the password. Report it to the police if necessary. 2. Visit hotmail.com and try to reset the password. If the company doesn't have enough information to reset the password you'll have to report it to Microsoft. Your customer is not in a position to authorize you to hack Microsoft's servers. I would not recommend you do this. Your customer does not own the servers you propose to hack. Worst case, your customer needs to create a new email address. Consider it a lesson learned and have them register their own Internet domain. .b On 2011-07-11, at 7:44 AM, Bert Van Kets <mailing () vankets com> wrote:Hi guys, a customer of mine, who runs a shop, just dismissed an employee. Just before leaving, the employee changed the password of the hotmail e-mail address used by the shop. The owner of the shop asked me to retrieve the password or at least to make sure the e-mail address is rendered inoperable. The e-mail address contains the name of the shop and not a person's name. It is clearly to be used by the shop. The request to recover the password comes from the legal owner of the shop. As I'm very new in the InfoSec world I'd like to get advise from the experts (yeah, that you lot). - Where can I get a template for a document I can have the customer sign to allow me to hack the hotmail address? - What is the best way to recover the hotmail e-mail password? - Is there a way to render the e-mail address inoperable? - Any other advise? Thanks. Bert _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom () mail pauldotcom com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com_______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom () mail pauldotcom com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com_______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom () mail pauldotcom com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com_______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom () mail pauldotcom com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com -- Paul Asadoorian PaulDotCom Enterprises Web: http://pauldotcom.com Phone: 401.829.9552 Fax: 1.877.846.2187 _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom () mail pauldotcom com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
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- password changed on hotmail address Bert Van Kets (Jul 11)
- Re: password changed on hotmail address Brian Erdelyi (Jul 11)
- Re: password changed on hotmail address Bert Van Kets (Jul 12)
- Re: password changed on hotmail address Brian Erdelyi (Jul 12)
- Re: password changed on hotmail address Aaron Melton (Jul 12)
- Re: password changed on hotmail address Paul Asadoorian (Jul 12)
- Re: password changed on hotmail address Brian Erdelyi (Jul 12)
- Re: password changed on hotmail address Bert Van Kets (Jul 12)
- Re: password changed on hotmail address Mike Patterson (Jul 12)
- Re: password changed on hotmail address Bert Van Kets (Jul 12)
- Re: password changed on hotmail address Bert Van Kets (Jul 12)
- Re: password changed on hotmail address Bert Van Kets (Jul 12)
- Re: password changed on hotmail address Brian Erdelyi (Jul 11)
- Re: password changed on hotmail address Jim Halfpenny (Jul 12)
- Re: password changed on hotmail address Neusbeer (Jul 11)