Identity Theft 2008 - Microsoft Lead Program Manager for Hotmail has Account Hacked

Omar Shahine, a Microsoft employee and the lead program manager of Windows Live realized the hard way how much information we keep within our inbox, when his account was hacked this week. 

Omar attempted to log in to his e-mail account on February 10th and when he couldn't get in, he realized that someone else now 'owned his data'.

 
On his blog, Omar stated, "I believe that some one managed to issue a password reset command to my account and then somehow logged in and reset my password essentially owning my data."

His blog post, an account of his difficulty accessing the account starts as follows:

What do you do when some one:

1. hacks into your account
2. changes your password
3. changes your secret question
4. changes your "alternate e-mail address"
5. changes all your profile information
6. sets up mail forwarding to another account
7. Turn on the exclusive junk filter (deleting all your e-mail)
8. Deletes your life (e-mail, contacts etc)

Also the attacker changed hisy First and Last name in passport to: "hey omar i can access all your email"