Think Someone Has Hacked My Hotmail Account

[j0nb0y]

I have just recieved an email from myself from hotmail, had a look in my outbox and there are numerous emails sent to people in my address book this morning which I hav not sent. I am presuming someone has hacked my account. In which case, how do they do it?, is my home pc safe? what do I need to do to sort it?

TIA

[chrisgel]

Changing your email password should stop this.

[Baby_Sham]

If you're already in, then there's not much you can do about it other than change your password to something stronger.
I have had this quite a few times, and had viagra emails sent to my parents! :-(
It's a bloody pain in the arse, but at least you're in. Hotmail aren't the quickest when it comes to helping you recover an email account!

[j0nb0y]

Many thanks for the speedy replies. Signed in no problem and changed my password straight away.

[sunny-dave]

Make sure you have "logged out all sessions" (at least that is what I would do in gmail) to make sure that the hackers are not still logged in elsewhere.