Hotmail not the only one with leaked accounts/passwords — Gmail, Yahoo, and others along for the ride

You may recall a particular article we posted yesterday that delt with a potentially disturbing problem affecting Hotmail/MSN/WindowsLive email users. For a quick recap, someone posted the account and password information for over 10,000 Hotmail/MSN/Live email on a forum post in Pastebin.com, a site used for developers to share code snippets.

That problem just became everyone’s problem as BBC is now citing that it wasn’t/isn’t just Microsoft based email services that were hit. Instead, it’s now known that Gmail account/password information was also leaked with strong concerns that Yahoo, AOL, and several others such as Comcast and Earthlink to name a few are just as unfortunate. Currently it is unknown whether this is all part of one big shebang or if the Hotmail incident is separate from the rest. One thing for sure however is that 10,000ish number of affected users is now climbing quickly.

Looks like that bad monday just became a week long ordeal. According to Google, the affected accounts were forced to have their passwords reset aiming to stop this problem from multiplying and keep the pain the affected end users feel to a minimum. Though they aren’t out of the woods yet.

Anyone notice anything fishy on their email accounts the last few days? If I were you, I’d take a couple of minutes and go ahead and reset that password. It could save you a ton of stress in the long run…

Cnet > BBC

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