Thousands of Hotmail accounts, the famous email service from Microsoft, have been hijacked by pirates, has unveiled yesterday the Redmond company. According to the leader in software, membership Hotmail have been lured by a stupid phishing technique which, remember, is to copy sometimes quite a site to fool the user. The sites of banks and Paypal are the most affected by this technique, but other types of sites are also prey to these scammers, including ISPs (Free and Orange in France have recently been affected) and email accounts. Still, this news is particularly bad for Microsoft, while Yahoo! Mail continues to crush the market, thanks to its unlimited storage, and Gmail catches at high speed Hotmail ... According to Microsoft, some passwords of Hotmail customers were published last week on a website, a site now destroyed. The creator of Bing and immediately reacted by blocking the accounts. "We have taken measures to block access to any accounts that have been exposed and have developed resources to help these users to recover their accounts," said Microsoft told AFP. Many Europeans are concerned by the mass publication of passwords. The number of hijacked accounts is not yet known precisely. It speaks well of thousands of accounts or more than 10 000. A drop of water to the millions of Hotmail members. The bad news could still cause some people to see the side of the competition.