Webmail firms probe login 'leak

stapp · May 4, 2016

Several popular webmail providers are investigating a report that millions of their users' login details are being shared online by a hacker.

Google Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Microsoft Hotmail and Mail.ru are among the services said to have been affected.

The security firm that flagged the issue said that it believed many of the usernames and passwords involved had not been leaked before.

However, it is not clear whether users' accounts have actually been breached.

Hold Security said it had obtained a total of 272 million unique pairs of email addresses and unencrypted passwords from the hacker, 42.5 million of which the company had not seen in earlier leaks.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36204531

The Red Moon · May 4, 2016

http://www.itv.com/news/2016-05-04/...-being-traded-in-russias-criminal-underworld/

Minimalist · May 6, 2016

That massive 'data breach' was just hype, email provider says

Hold Security made quite a splash in the security world on Wednesday when it claimed to have recovered 272 million stolen email credentials from a much larger trove, but on Friday the email provider most strongly affected called the report an effort to create media hype.

Hold suggested that nearly 57 million of the stolen email accounts uncovered were from the popular Russian service Mail.ru. But more than 99.9 percent of the Mail.ru account credentials in a sample examined by the provider are invalid, the Russian company said.
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http://www.computerworld.com/articl...breach-was-just-hype-email-provider-says.html

itman · May 6, 2016

I have images of mariska dolls in my head right now .................

Page42 · May 7, 2016

Hype or no hype, it provided good motivation for me to change a few passwords... something that was long overdue anyway.

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