Am 12.03.2012 16:01, schrieb Devrim Ogun: > I have not been using my msn messenger account for a few years. > When I was using I was using with pidgin. > It is on this email (xxx@xxx) which is housed on my site. > A buddy told me that my msn messenger account is hacked. > So I changed the password on my server. > > Then I downloaded pidgin (I am on ubuntu). When I tried to add > the account with the new (or the old) password I am receiving the message > "Unable to authenticate". > > It looks like these passwords are not checked against their respective > servers > making it quite impossible to retrieve hacked accounts. > > Could you please offer a remedy?
You should contact Microsoft as from my understanding the password is stored on their side and independent of your mail account. Cheers, Frank _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
