272.3 million is a big number and sadly it refers to the number of email accounts which have been affected by a recent data breach. The vast majority of the accounts are from Russia's Mail.ru but Yahoo accounts for 15%, Hotmail 12% and Gmail 9% of the leak. With 50 rubles and the right connections you can have the email addresses and passwords of a very large number of people. Sadly, The Inquirer also heard that this collection includes details of user accounts of US banking, manufacturing and retail companies. When you are changing your passwords today, try to avoid obvious Star Wars references.
"Reuters has the scoop, having heard from Alex Holden, founder and chief information security officer of Hold Security – and the man who last year uncovered the largest data breach to date – that the details of 272.3 million stolen accounts are being traded."
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This along with many other
This along with many other reasons is why I don’t use any of the ‘big’ email providers for anything besides throwaways.
This sounds like it’s less
This sounds like it’s less related to a breach from those specific email providers and more a breach of a service or services people trusted their email passwords to.
completely agree. I only use
completely agree. I only use my gmail account nowadays with Amazon and any other that requires an email to activate but doesnt need it to function i use 10minutemail. help reduce the attack surface area a little bit
that picture is awesome
that picture is awesome
In Russia all email accounds
In Russia all email accounds are hosted on FSB(formally FSK/KGB) server and the American NSA look at Russia with envy!
But I joke, NSA have M$ do the work for them!
I buy leads like this all the
I buy leads like this all the time from oversea’s. Fuck yeah, I love these guys.