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Documents seen by CNET UK suggest thousands of usernames and passwords for Hotmail, Google and Yahoo accounts have been illegally posted to the Internet.
Login credentials for accounts ending with yahoo.com, hotmail.com, gmail.com, msn.com, live.com and hotmail.fr were seen. Users of these services are strongly encouraged to immediately change their passwords.

Usernames and passwords for Google's Gmail service could also provide hackers with access to users' YouTube, Blogger, Google Docs and Google Talk accounts, as these services are all owned by Google and often work under a single login ID. We contacted Google, which acknowledged the leaked details and blames phishing attacks rather than insecurities within Google's system.

"We recently became aware of an industry-wide phishing scheme through which hackers gained user credentials for Web-based mail accounts including Gmail accounts," a Google spokesperson told CNET UK.

"As soon as we learned of the attack, we forced password resets on the affected accounts. We will continue to force password resets on additional accounts when we become aware of them."

We also contacted Yahoo, a spokesperson for whom confirmed, "We are aware and are investigating."

Reports of leaked Hotmail account details first appeared on Neowin. Microsoft later confirmed the news, and announced that "as a result of our investigation we are taking measures to block access to all of the accounts that were exposed and have resources in place to help those users reclaim their accounts."

Once again, if you have email accounts with Google, Microsoft or Yahoo, you are strongly advised to change your password immediately.

We will update this story as and when we hear further details.
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Cheers ;)
I use to change my live.com password on a regular basis, but I'll do it now..

Anyway they should consider making them expire periodically, so users are "forced" to keep them changed on a regular basis..
 
*aLe said:
Cheers ;)
I use to change my live.com password on a regular basis, but I'll do it now..

Anyway they should consider making them expire periodically, so users are "forced" to keep them changed on a regular basis..
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You do know there's a box you can tick with Hotmail accounts so that you ARE forced to change your password every 72 days?

Go to Hotmail.com, click the "Forgotten Your Password?" link, follow the instructions to reset your password and when you're prompted to input a new password there's a tickbox at the bottom that says "make my password expire every 72 days".
 
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Shit... :(

I've used the same password for ages now on most things and I know i'll remember it and nobody else will have a chance in hell of guessing it...

Not sure whether to keep it or not...
 
Chris Davies said:
You do know there's a box you can tick with Hotmail accounts so that you ARE forced to change your password every 72 days?
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Sorry, just read the post now.. I meant that they should force ANY password to expire.. Even if users don't want to..

But, I should be honest, I wasn't aware of that option you told me :P
 
Rinaldo said:
Thanks for the Info.

Anyways, these news simply get overhyped sometimes.
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I can personally confirm this to be true as I have had my yahoo account hacked into on the 16th October by some American who then proceeded to access my ebay acount and try to purchase 6 mobile phones at £2,700.

Fortunately, ebay security works and stopped any transactions.

Be careful people.
 
Hi!!
Thanks for informing us regarding such a unsecured Internet.
They say that they are the secured one but there is nothing like secured in the world of Internet.
 
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