Zguy28 Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 Exclusive: Big data breaches found at major email services - expert http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-passwords-idUSKCN0XV1I6 Hundreds of millions of hacked user names and passwords for email accounts and other websites are being traded in Russia's criminal underworld, a security expert told Reuters. The discovery of 272.3 million stolen accounts included a majority of users of Mail.ru (MAILRq.L), Russia's most popular email service, and smaller fractions of Google (GOOGL.O), Yahoo (YHOO.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) email users, said Alex Holden, founder and chief information security officer of Hold Security. Rest at link If you have GMail, Yahoo! or Hotmail, you want to change the password. You may want to change passwords on any online account that uses it also, especially if its the same password. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sisko Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 Thanks for sharing this. Not that it obviates the need to change your password(s) but if you haven't enabled two factor authentication... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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