I have read and accept the privacy policy and terms and conditions and by submitting my email address I agree to receive the Business IT newsletter and receive special offers on behalf of Business IT, nextmedia and its valued partners. All three providers said they were investigating the breach, although Microsoft added that any account in the list would require “additional information to verify the account owner and help them regain sole access”. “We are now checking whether any combinations of username/password match – and as soon as we have enough information we will warn the users who might have been affected.”Įlsewhere, 40 million logins were said to be from Yahoo accounts, 33 million from Hotmail and 24 million from Google. “A large number of usernames are repeated with different passwords,” the spokesperson said. The highest proportion – 57 million – were said to be from the Russian email provider, although a spokesperson from suggested that after an initial investigation, the leak wasn't as bad as it first appeared.
Information security consulting firm Hold Security claimed it had acquired a list of 272 million login credentials spread across all three webmail providers, as well as Russian company.
If you rely on Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo, you may want to take a minute now and change the password. Information security firm claims it received 272 million unencrypted unique usernames and passwords from a hacker.
