Costin Riau, a security expert with Kaspersky Lab, tried to log into his old hotmail account with his old hotmail password – all 36 characters. It failed, with an error message saying, “Microsoft account passwords can contain up to 16 characters.”


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Costin Riau, a security expert with Kaspersky Lab, tried to log into his old hotmail account with his old hotmail password – all 36 characters. It failed, with an error message saying, “Microsoft account passwords can contain up to 16 characters.”
Sun, 23 Sep 2012 16:53:00 GMT
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