I have just been reading a news report on Stuff that advises all hotmail users to change their password as they have had a massive security breach

So, those of you with hotmail accounts better read up about it.

It's a list of account information gained from a phishing attack. In other words, if you have gone to a site other than hotmail.com and been asked for your hotmail.com login details and you entered them all, you could be at risk.

If you ever get asked to enter details like usernames and passwords for a service, you should always go to the site manually rather than clicking the link given to you.