Portal:Current events/2003 May 8
May 8, 2003 (Thursday)
- 30 German passengers and the driver of a tourist bus are killed by a train collision at a railroad crossing near Siofok, Hungary. 12 people are injured. Most of the passengers came from Lower Saxony or Schleswig-Holstein.
- A vulnerability in the Microsoft Passport Internet authentication system is announced which allows an attacker to change a victim's password and thereby hijack their account. This affects Hotmail and other Passport-enabled systems, allowing an attacker to use a victim's email account and obtain other personal data such as credit card numbers.,[1][2]
- The Russian mathematician Dr Grigori Perelman claims to have resolved the Poincaré conjecture.[3]
- In New York City, the World Boxing Council declares itself bankrupt, to avoid paying a former world champion 30 million dollars after the former boxer wins a lawsuit against the organization.
- King Mohammed VI of Morocco releases 9459 prisoners from Morocco's prisons in celebration of the birth of his first son and heir, who was named Prince Moulay Hassan.
- An F4 tornado hits metro area of Oklahoma City, and became the 10th costliest tornado in United States history. No one was killed but many were injured. The tornado followed a path similar to that of the F5 tornado of May 3, 1999.
- ^ SecurityTracker. "Microsoft .NET Passport Passwords, Including Hotmail Passwords, Can Be Changed By Remote Users". SecurityTracker. Retrieved 2015-10-24.
- ^ "SecurityFocus". SecurityFocus. Archived from the original on 2015-09-26. Retrieved 2015-10-24.
- ^ "Great maths puzzle 'solved'". BBC News. May 7, 2003.