I noticed today that somehow someone sent emails from my account to everyone in my contacts, and now my contacts are gone.  How much of my information is compromised?  What do I need to do to stop it from happening again?  Do I have to shut down my acccount and make a new one?  I changed my password, but is that enough?

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

@ kariabrown

If you suspect that an unauthorized person has used your Windows Live ID to sign into your Windows Live Hotmail account deleted your contacts and sent an message to all your contacts, please read the articles on the following links for further help.

http://help.live.com/Help.aspx?market=en-US&project=LiveIDv1&querytype=topic&query=Accountv1_TROU_UnauthorizedAccess.htm

/solutions/accounts/archive/2008/10/25/what-to-do-if-you-think-your-accounts-been-stolen.aspx

If you'd like to recover your contacts, please provide at least three sample email addresses that were deleted from your account for confirmation purposes.

Note: I've moved your post to the proper forum.

My email address is {removed email address}

three of my contacts are

Taylor Malek {removed email address}

Jim Brown {removed email address}

Norm Lunning {removed email address}

This all seemed to happen after I recieved this email that was addressed from myself to myself, but I did not send it:

Dear friend:
I would like to introduce you a corporation which mainly sell electronic products.Now the company is doing sales promotion,and all the products are sold nearly at its cost price.What's more,they provide their customers the best service and products which is good in qulity and low in price.It is a good chance for shopping,so improve the shining hour.Its now or never! Regards!

Thanks!

@ kariabrown
Please provide us again your e-mail address and the three contacts needed to verify that it is your account.

{removed email address}

Norm Lunning {removed email address}

Joyce Lunning {removed email address}

Taylor Malek {removed email address}

Hi Karia!

I tried to recover your lost contacts in our Support Control Panel. I am unable to restore them back to your account's Contacts list and you need to manually add them back.

I’d like to let you know that I am glad that upon verification, the three (3) contacts that you provided were all successfully recovered! I’ve already sent the contacts via email using the WLSC test account. Don’t’ reply to the email since it is an unmonitored mailbox.

Note: The contacts that were not included in the list of recovered contacts can no longer be retrieved.