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>Hotmail will put the account in recovery mode which will cause a password reset. This sounds like it could be easily abused. How will the password reset work
by planb 15y ago
>Hotmail will put the account in recovery mode which will cause a password reset.
This sounds like it could be easily abused. How will the password reset work if the hotmail address is the only one a user has? What will he need to do to reclaim access to his account?
- contextfree 15y agoin comments to the original blog post, the PM for this feature mentions that the "my friend's been hacked" reports aren't enough by themselves to trigger this, they have to be accompanied by suspicious usage patterns on the alleged hacked account.