Especially quizzes like "where was your first job?" or "what's your favorite movie?" all sounded like phishing for security question answers.
And it was left like this for at least 12 hours after it was first reported in media...
http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/30/hotmail.03/
https://slashdot.org/story/99/08/30/1324206/hotmail-cracked-...