{"id":271,"date":"2016-06-03T09:44:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T08:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dataleaklawyers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=271"},"modified":"2016-06-03T09:44:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T08:44:04","slug":"microsoft-outlook-hotmail-account-flooded-spam-last-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dataleaklawyers.co.uk\/blog\/microsoft-outlook-hotmail-account-flooded-spam-last-days","title":{"rendered":"Has your Microsoft Outlook or Hotmail account been flooded with spam over the last few days?"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’re not alone!<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I woke up the other day and checked my Hotmail account to find I’d been flooded with a load of spam emails, I thought “oh great, some idiot has signed my account up to something” – but it turns out it’s not that at all.<\/p>\n

Apparently Microsoft is having some issues with its email filters, and the result has been a tirade of spam mails that’s caused a great deal of annoyance for those affected.
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\nSocial media exploded with plenty of tweets from angry users who had been receiving loads of spam and junk emails, with one tweeter saying “Getting a spam\/junk email about every minute into my main inbox\u201d and another saying they were “drowning in junk mail.”<\/p>\n

Microsoft made a statement earlier in the week to say that a service upgrade was being initiated to resolve the issue. They addressed that: “Some users may be receiving excessive spam mail.<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

So make sure you don’t click on any Hotmail account spam links claiming you’ve won a prize or you’re set to become a billionaire!<\/p>\n

The cause of the issue has not been disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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