Has she contacted the employee or Hotmail? On Jul 12, 2011, at 4:01 AM, Bert Van Kets <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the information guy. > > Looks like my customer is pretty much out of luck. > She had already tried to guess the password and go through the reset > password process. No luck there. > She also has gone to the police to file a complaint. > > I'll break the news gently and inform her she's been pretty stupid and > has to bear the consequences. > > Bert > > On 11/07/2011 22:04, Brian Erdelyi wrote: >> I'm not going to lecturer about using hotmail accounts for business. >> >> 1. Contact the employee for the password. Report it to the police if >> necessary. >> 2. Visit hotmail.com and try to reset the password. If the company doesn't >> have enough information to reset the password you'll have to report it to >> Microsoft. >> >> Your customer is not in a position to authorize you to hack Microsoft's >> servers. I would not recommend you do this. Your customer does not own the >> servers you propose to hack. >> >> Worst case, your customer needs to create a new email address. Consider it >> a lesson learned and have them register their own Internet domain. >> >> .b >> >> On 2011-07-11, at 7:44 AM, Bert Van Kets <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> a customer of mine, who runs a shop, just dismissed an employee. Just >>> before leaving, the employee changed the password of the hotmail e-mail >>> address used by the shop. The owner of the shop asked me to retrieve the >>> password or at least to make sure the e-mail address is rendered inoperable. >>> >>> The e-mail address contains the name of the shop and not a person's >>> name. It is clearly to be used by the shop. The request to recover the >>> password comes from the legal owner of the shop. >>> >>> As I'm very new in the InfoSec world I'd like to get advise from the >>> experts (yeah, that you lot). >>> - Where can I get a template for a document I can have the customer sign >>> to allow me to hack the hotmail address? >>> - What is the best way to recover the hotmail e-mail password? >>> - Is there a way to render the e-mail address inoperable? >>> - Any other advise? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Bert >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Pauldotcom mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom >>> Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >> _______________________________________________ >> Pauldotcom mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom >> Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >> > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
