Do Not Use Hotmail As Your Secondary Email Account
This post by Gina Trapani (Lifehacker) made me reconsider what i use for secondary email address…
Registering for an account at any web site almost always requires an email address, and some people use a secondary address they don’t care about instead of their real email address to avoid spam. If you do this, be very careful.
Microsoft shuts down Hotmail accounts that haven’t been logged into after nine months. So if you registered for your Gmail account two years ago and used your Hotmail address as your secondary email address and never logged back in, you’ve put your Gmail account at risk.
Here’s how: If your Hotmail account gets shut down due to inactivity, someone else can open a new one using your Hotmail address. Then, if that someone else requests a password reset from Gmail, it goes to that address, and that someone can get into your primary email account. This is how Twitter employees’ Gmail accounts got broken into last week.
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