@ sadiya saleh I need to have your e-mail account for me to try and recover your missing contacts. To take action on the supposed hacker, you need to contact the abuse team at abuse@hotmail.com @ ktx2skd If you think you were hacked and do not have access to your account... More

Hi S_samaras, I have moved your post to the proper forum. Your account could've been hacked. This can happen usually when passwords or password resets can be easily bypassed by third parties. Even if you have a long password, if it only consists of alpabetical or... More

Hello, This is the situation: ALL MY CONTACTS ARE GONE, THANKS TO A "ELECTRONIC COMPANIES" THAT SOMEHOW HACKED MY ACCOUNT, AND RIGHT AFTER THEY START TO SEND SPAM TO ALL MY CONTACTS, PROMOTING THEIR BUSINESS, ALL MY CONTACTS SIMPLY DISAPPEAR! THIS IS AN ABUSE... More

[quote user="keenkristin"] Yesterday, a spam email was sent from my <edited>@hotmail.com account to everyone in my contact list. Now I find that all my contacts are gone. (I have already changed my password to the account.) I did find the sent spam in... More

MoMo5 , when my co-moderators tried to recover messages from your Hotmail account, the recovered messages should appear in your account within a 72 hour period. Meaning, there may be messages that will appear immediately after the process or anytime within the 72 hour... More

Hi Nottingham, For me to be able to assist you in retrieving your contacts, please provide the following: - Your e-mail address. - At least 3 sample addresses that are in your contacts list for verification purposes that you are indeed the owner of the account. Hi gopeacefully... More

@ mwhitley @ Nottingham I have checked your Windows Live Hotmail accounts through our Support Control Panel and tried to recover your missing contacts. I have recovered some contacts and have sent them to your respective Windows Live Hotmail account. However, the recovered... More

@ namecnav I am happy to hear that you’ve got your missing contacts back. I’ll make sure that Windows Live Alvin F. hears of this update. I will be unable to provide you any dates when your contacts have been saved, as our Privacy Policy does restrict us... More

Hi parkerluton, I’m glad to help you out on this. If you can’t sign in to your account and if you’re suspecting that someone else has accessed it, you can try to reset your password so that you can gain access back to your account. Here’s a blog... More

I am sorry about your messages MoMo5 . Sadly, any message that’s no longer in the servers is unrecoverable. More