News Burst: Hotmail wants your credit card details

05 Oct 1999 09:39


Less than two months after its embarrassing security blunder Hotmail, is hoping users will entrust their credit card details to its servers.

Microsoft has come up with e-commerce solution it believes will help protect millions of current Hotmail users from credit-card fraud and junk e-mail.

The catch? That they hand over credit card details to Hotmail.

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