In my experience with friends I found those friends with Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL & Gmail had the worst security experience with their accounts getting hacked into with their contacts stored there pilfered and disseminated more than all my other friends who never used those services. Then there was the reports that Google was reading and scraping info from the content in the Gmail accounts. No thanks.
Fwiw:
In the 12 years I’ve had my Hotmail, I’ve NEVER had a security issue of ANY type, including phishing emails.