Over 272 million email accounts stolen from Gmail, Microsoft, Yahoo and more

Posted on May 4, 2016May 4, 2016 by Authcom

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A new report shows that hackers from Russia have obtained login credentials for more than 272.3 million email accounts, which are now available for sale in Russia’s criminal underworld, a Most of them are Mail.ru accounts, though the list also includes smaller fractions of Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft email users.

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