Others mail services have been the victims of a hacker attack and users and passwords of millions of accounts have been exposed. According to Reuters, security expert Alex Holden of Hold Security has reported a huge security breach that has affected millions of email accounts. To be more exact, the attack would have affected 57 million Russian email provider Mail.ru accounts, 40 million Yahoo! accounts, 33 million Hotmail (Outlook) accounts and 24 million Gmail accounts.
Moreover, the breach also contains hundreds of thousands of German and Chinese email addresses and thousands of usernames and passwords that appear to belong to employees of US Banking, manufacturing companies, and retail stores. With all this, it is recommended to change the password of all the email accounts that belong to one of the services that have been affected by this attack.
Good time to change the password of our mail service
Apparently Hold Security he found out about the attack directly from the hacker, who was selling the data for just $ 1. Instead of paying, Holden told the hacker that he would post positive comments about him on hacker forums, to which the hacker agreed and gave him the data. About ten days ago, Hold Security began informing affected companies of the problem, as company policy is to return stolen data to affected companies.
Although the accounts affected have been in the tens of millions, the percentage has been relatively low. In fact, Google has recently announced that we are already more than 1.000 million users who have an account in gmail. The worst thing is that many users tend to "recycle" their credentials, so the problem can extend to other types of services as well. In any case, to avoid any unpleasant surprises, it is best to change your password right now.