Rabble if you have or know someone who has a Hotmail account/email address, I would just like to raise a note of caution.

Today my hotmail account was blocked. I know not why, all attempts to unblock it referred me back to a default page which wanted to send a code to an out of date secondary email address.

After investigating the issue on search engines I found that this is becoming more and more of an issue globally. All of a sudden your hotmail account is blocked and you have no recourse to obtain your emails or any saved emails from your account. The reason it gives is that you have been sending out a lot of spam or that someone has hacked your account. Either way there is little you can do about it if you dont have a back up email address with a different ISP address.

I have now spent the last 6 hours resetting all my accounts with banks, ebay, xmarks, itunes etc etc because some computer nerd thinks its a laugh to make other peoples lives a misery. Thanks to the idiot who perpetrated this hacking I have now lost personal emails and online receipts, letters from my daughter and much more.

Do yourselves a favour and change your email provider, before this happens to you.

Needless to say I am BL@@DY annoyed.