270 Million Compromised Email Accounts

[BIGNEWY]

http://www.eteknix.com/hacker-selling-over-270-million-compromised-email-accounts/

 

 

Just a heads up noticed this in the press today

 

The 270 million accounts list 53 million from Russian email provider Mail.ru, 40 million from Yahoo Mail, 33 million from Hotmail and 24 million Gmail accounts. Alongside the public emails, there is a long list of accounts belonging to U.S. staff within banking, manufacturing and retail companies.

[Rangi]

Yay, more penis enlargement pills coming our way.........

[rrohde]

From the article:

 

With the data offering thousands of accounts to the wider public, and people’s tendency to reuse their passwords across multiple sites and services, the repercussions from such a wide range of accounts going online could affect thousands of companies and even government agencies.

 

^^^ That's the scary part; I am also one of those that use the same pw all over the place, and now I am scrambling to change them wherever I have some financial info stored... yikes.

[Evilducky]

Dear hacker..

 

If you stole my account, please email me my password. i dont remember it anymore and have it autolog in.

 

Thanks

Forgetful user

[Eight Ball]

LOL EvilDucky :megalol:

 

Thanks for the news Bignewy

[Oceandar]

Woah.....its time to change the pswd.

 

Gam Zeh Ya'avor - King Salomon

[DieHard]

Maybe not so bad:

 

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/05/the-massive-password-breach-that-wasnt-google-says-data-is-98-bogus/