Microsoft investigates Hotmail privacy breach

In its statement, the software giant said, "Microsoft takes customers' privacy seriously, and immediately upon learning of these reports, we started an investigation. We will take appropriate action once we have completed the investigation."

Reports of the nature of the security breach suggest that it did indeed coincide with the sign-in service failure. Users with the problem describe being presented with an inbox that was not their own; subsequent logins presented a different inbox each time.

With Google in hot water for privacy issues relating to adding its new Buzz service to Gmail, it seems that February has been a bad month for Web mail users who want to keep themselves to themselves.

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