on one of the Russian forums leak from yesterday unimaginable amounts of data. It started a couple of million accounts from two large Russian sites, but the network went today another list, containing the approx. 5 million cases of Gmail.
At the beginning of the hands of Internet Security Bitcoin Forum members, got a file with more than one million postal addresses of users of the portal Yandex. Then came the addresses of more than 4.5 million accounts service mail.ru, and today nearly 5 million Gmail accounts.
Publishes information you tvskit claims that his actions are a warning, and topics posts writes “change a password”. Interestingly, the published files do not contain passwords initially, and only e-mail addresses. Credibility hacker added that he places on the internet also fragments containing and logins, and passwords. This can be expected, that these are not just idle boasting, and has the full database. In his view, approx. 60 percent. of them are still active and are apparently among them Poles account.
Unfortunately, the warnings and digital prężeniu muscle is not over. In the afternoon the file with all the logins and passwords landed on the network. In most cases, it comes to passwords to accounts from other sites, only the combination of Gmail accounts. If anyone remember the safety use of the Internet and using different passwords on each page, its Gmail is safe – need only rearrange the remaining codes.
Where does such a mass of data? It seems that it fell prey to hacking servers email service providers, but were stolen by botnets and sold wholesale on the black market. They can also be among them account data of criminals, assumed to carry the stock spammer.
Accounts associated with upublicznionymi emails already blocked sites Odnoklassniki and VKontakte, which is the largest Russian social networks. If you fear that your mail list appears, you can check it out here.
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