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Change your passcodes–Huge breach on GMail, Yahoo, Hotmail and Mail.RU

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Change your passwords ASAP!

 

A group of russian hackers breached into some passwords, about 270M of them, and they are selling them.

 

Services affected are: Gmail, Hotmail, Mail.RU and Yahoo.

 

Although it's not official, you should change your password anyway.

 

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http://gizmodo.com/russian-hackers-have-270-million-email-logins-includin-1774848936

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4 minutes ago, Djole123 said:

Change your passwords ASAP!

 

A group of russian hackers breached into some passwords, about 270M of them, and they are selling them.

 

Services affected are: Gmail, Hotmail, Mail.RU and Yahoo.

 

Although it's not official, you should change your password anyway.

 

Source:

http://gizmodo.com/russian-hackers-have-270-million-email-logins-includin-1774848936

I've got 2 step verification on my gmail, and my password is very LONG.

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5 minutes ago, Djole123 said:

Change your passwords ASAP!

 

A group of russian hackers breached into some passwords, about 270M of them, and they are selling them.

 

Services affected are: Gmail, Hotmail, Mail.RU and Yahoo.

 

Although it's not official, you should change your password anyway.

 

Source:

http://gizmodo.com/russian-hackers-have-270-million-email-logins-includin-1774848936

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Damn it, I just changed my password a few weeks ago.

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1 minute ago, Zodiark1593 said:

Damn it, I just changed my password a few weeks ago.

And I turned off two factor autenthication a couple of days ago DAMMIT!!!

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1 hour ago, Djole123 said:

And I turned off two factor autenthication a couple of days ago DAMMIT!!!

Why would you possibly disabled two factor? That's, quite simply, irresponsible and a dumb decision.

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1 hour ago, Abdul201588 said:

I've got 2 step verification on my gmail, and my password is very LONG.

that doesn't really matter if someone knows your password does it?

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9 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

that doesn't really matter if someone knows your password does it?

Try remembering a 25 character password with capital letters and numbers. 

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4 minutes ago, Abdul201588 said:

Try remembering a 25 character password with capital letters and numbers. 

Yo his point was that if someone steals your password, they'll have it written down. No need to remember it.

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And in the article you cited:

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Update: There may, however, not be too much cause for concern, as Motherboard points out that the data may in fact be taken from a series of older hacks, which means the credentials are likely useless.

 

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