Millions of Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google accounts are part of a trove of 272.3 million stolen accounts being traded in the Russian underworld. Alex Holden, founder of Hold Security, noted that while the majority of compromised accounts were from Russian email service Mail.ru, smaller fractions of the affected accounts were from the 3 big email providers. Hold Security’s discovery came after researchers found a young Russian hacker bragging in an online forum about stolen credentials totalling around 1.17 billion records.
Read the full story on Rappler.
There are no comments yet. Add your comment to start the conversation.