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Is this a big deal? Microsoft already do this with hotmail etc and have done for over a decade.
by kryten 13y ago
Is this a big deal?
Microsoft already do this with hotmail etc and have done for over a decade.
- hackinthebochs 13y agoAre you sure about this? Microsoft deletes your email after a time but your account is not then up for grabs. It still requires the same user/pass to login.
- citricsquid 13y agoAre you sure? I had an email address (@hotmail.com) that I used in 2005 - 2006 and needed it again recently to recover an old account, couldn't login (unrecognised) so I went through the registration process and "created" a new account with the same address and a new password.
- Neur0n 13y agoI can confirm this is still the case. Story made me check old hotmail account - said the account did not exist and allowed me to create new account with same address.
- hackinthebochs 13y agoWell, my last experience trying to recover an old hotmail account was a few years back, so they certainly may have changed their policy since then. I'm surprised I didn't hear about the policy change though, I would have happily used hotmail for a good short name :)
- doomslice 13y agoI accidentally hijacked someone else's hotmail account (and subsequently their abandoned Myspace account) because I was able to register the hotmail they used for it and then use forgot password to send a reset email on Myspace. I assume the same thing could be done for other services.
- kryten 13y agoYes 100% sure. I just signed up to outlook.com with my old address again and a new password.