I'm in Texas. Unfortunately, many of the folks on my hotmail contact list got an email explaining that I am in London and that I lost all of my money. The bogus email asked for $2500 be sent by Western Union.
I tried to login to my hotmail account to warn my contacts, but the whole account had been hijacked. I did get off a quick email to security and got the account disabled, so I hope the abuse will stop there. My security contact told me that I was not the first person that this has happened to and that it was probably a brute force attack (where the criminals repeatedly guess at the password) although it could happen when using an infected shared computer which I almost never do.
In any case, I'm having to spend quite a lot of time tonight changing passwords, just in case too much information leaked. What a pain.
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