Hijacked contact list

[postmanthe]

Someone appears to have hijacked my contact list on hotmail and sends the following message to every one.
How can i get rid of it and prevent it happening again.


Dear friend,
Last week, I bought an iphone on a website: www.elecls.com <http://www.elecls.com>, it is very cheap and I get it in 5 days. Its quality is very good. The website also sell psp, motor, tv , laptop and so on. I never forget to share good things with friends. So , if you are interested in , you can spend several minutes to have a look. I think you will be very surprise.
Greetings!

[ChuckFickens]

change your password.

and then when, in future, you see a website that claims to add all your hotmail friends or check to see who's blocked you etc if you enter your email address and password don't do it again.

[postmanthe]

Chuck i'm not computer literate but i certainly never gave my email address or password i do know that much from what i see on answerbank.

[ChuckFickens]

still change your password, if you used a real word as your password they may have just got it by trying a whole dictionary as the password until one word let them in.

[postmanthe]

Thanks Chuck I will change my password but i did use a combination of letters, numbers and symbols.

[squarebear]

As Chuck says, are you sure you didn't fill in your details on something like this:
http://www.square-bear.co.uk/mitsuku/msn.htm

I set this up as an experiment and got a dozen genuine email logins and passwords within a few hours.