Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft accounts hacked and put up for sale

[Lego lad]

I know now not to forget with the Russians.

you are a communist

i bet it was you

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[carolcat]

i got a email from twitter like 3 days ago saying someone tried to log into my account with my password and username and lived no where near me

i haven't touched that account like 4 years

i changed the password

maybe this is related to that

oh stuff i just checked my email and found an alert like that too

[TheBlackParrot]

i've got nothing for all 6 twitter accounts lol

[Trymos]

I'm willing to bet three of the biggest tech companies in the U.S (if not on the planet) are probably hashing their passwords properly. Seems like the media's making a mountain out of a molehill again.

three of the biggest tech companies are hashing their passwords properly.

all of the smartest hackers are working on cracking that hash.

perhaps they haven't already cracked your current hash, but there's no doubt they're quick work on someones hash like say... pewdiepie.
and others are possibly working on a way to quickly unhash all of these accounts, so the safest bet is just to change everything because literally anything can happen considering the fact that like you said, they are the 3 biggest tech giants in the world.

[Trymos]

also i decided to look more into it.

majority of the stolen email addresses came from mail.ru with 57m

next up is yahoo at 40m
and next up is outlook at 33M
next up again is gmail at 24M

that's nowhere near the amount of possible emails that all 4 of the email providers have.

then it got explained further by saying it's a culmination of a billion smaller websites getting hijacked and passwords stolen. meaning that this number dwindles even further on amount of accessible emails due to people using different passwords for stuff.

this has a clickbaity title but it is not sensationalist.

change your passwords anyways it could include you. good habit is to change your password every quarter (3 months) then you'll never end up with hijacked accounts if you don't go and be handicapped and get yourself infected and not run a scan every week.

also another thing i found out is that none of that adds up to 270m, probably unfinished statistics on the guardians part.

[JBlitz404]

also i decided to look more into it.

majority of the stolen email addresses came from mail.ru with 57m

next up is yahoo at 40m
and next up is outlook at 33M
next up again is gmail at 24M

that's nowhere near the amount of possible emails that all 4 of the email providers have.

then it got explained further by saying it's a culmination of a billion smaller websites getting hijacked and passwords stolen. meaning that this number dwindles even further on amount of accessible emails due to people using different passwords for stuff.

this has a clickbaity title but it is not sensationalist.


Still regardless, it's more logical to just change your password just in case.