If you rely on Google, Microsoft, Yahoo or Mail.ru for your emails, you should go change your password right now.
Reuters is reporting that a Russian hacker has stolen more than 273 million email passwords and are selling them online. If true, this would be the largest security breach since hackers attacked US banks and retailers two years ago.
This revelation, Reuters reports, comes from a security expert at US-based security firm Holden Security. The company told Reuters that the stolen accounts include 53 million Mail.ru accounts, 40 million Yahoo accounts, 33 million Microsoft Hotmail accounts, and 24 million Gmail accounts.
Why do they keep blaming the Russians when we know that the US owns all the fibre optic cables that run the Internet.
It’s never the US that hacks. Always the Chinese, Russians and Koreans or nerdy kids
Like ‘outage/hack’ Dante, we are stupid, very, very stupid to be buying into this fake news.
Perhaps the problem is not as troublesome as originally thought
http://fortune.com/2016/05/07/gmail-yahoo-mail-hack/
Google is 100% owned by the CIA which is the world’s premier and most efficient spying organisation. They hack us and then blame it on the Russians, Koreans and Chinese. Excellent stuff!
INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a new crowd-funded investigative journalism project, breaks the exclusive story of how the United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as part of a drive to dominate the world through control of information. Seed-funded by the NSA and CIA, Google was merely the first among a plethora of private sector start-ups co-opted by US intelligence to retain ‘information superiority.’
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e#.z6s6h7dsi
This has not made much news. I do not conduct business on the Internet. I do not save confidential matters on the Internet.
A hacker who was imprisoned stated, people are foolish to conduct business on the Internet.
Microsoft rules the world of Internet. Most Internet Providers use Microsoft servers. I am not enthused about Microsoft.
No wonder I was having trouble with my Gmail accounts emails were being sent to me and never reached me no matter how many times I refreshed. I immediately changes my password and asked my colleague to send me an email as a test and then I started receiving my emails. Do a little historical biblical study in that talk to Manley James he will tell its part of the anti-Christ because they have to access everyone’s account and passwords remember people will not be able to buy and sell easily during the tribulation hmm. You must be entered into the system to access service anywhere.
looool if technological failures are a sign of end times then we successfully prevented the end of the world in 2000 when most of the adverse effects of what would have been the y2k tech apocalypse were averted
When the US owns all of the fibre optic cables that run the Internet worldwide, why is a US news agency blaming this apparent security outage on ‘Russians’?
Clearly you don’t know how networks operate…lol.
And no, it wasn’t an ‘outage’, it was a breach.
Breach our ‘outage’, the result is the same – lack of security on purpose. If you can stop being a smart-arse and are able to read, try this for starters: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/the-creepy-long-standing-practice-of-undersea-cable-tapping/277855/
It’s old news that the USA’s NASA and its millions of employees and networks worldwide, can tap into anyone’s email, mobile/ telephone via accessing undersea fibre optic cables. Remember a guy called Snowden, well he told us all about that. And guess what, it is fact.
By the way, do you know who funded Google?? Guess who? Well, it was funded, conceived and is directed by the CIA, read and learn: http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2016/04/google-conceived-funded-and-directed-by-the-cia-3344539.
The CIA need to be able to do this to keep us safe my friend. It’s for our own good.
hahaha @USA is Great. you mean the NSA? not NASA lol and FYI a breach and an outage are completely different both in how they occur and the resulting effect. An outage would mean complete lack of service whereas a breach just means that security was compromised. And yes hackers anywhere in the world can breach important networks, servers etc. The same thing that the NSA does can be done by ANYONE with enough knowledge and equipment. And this breach most likely had to do with a database hack not network tapping so what you’re trying to imply makes even less sense.
2 factor authentication for the win…..they can have the password but need physical access to my phone to even use it
Perhaps one needs to be equally aware of the Russian made tablets that were given to our stu dents in Dominica that is said to be tracked. Nothing is free! Information, data, tracking is power to many. It’s time we Dominicans open our eyes. And yes the hack was discovered a few weeks ago. You need to do more than change your password. They are tracking keystrokes. I suggest following these steps. Go to GOOGLE CHROME ………….. Setting……..Privacy……..Content Settings……….Cookies…………..All cookies and site data……………Remove All. Have a blessed Day.
I have security for my computer. Microsoft states it has security for Windows and constantly updates it.
My security once updated my computer system and stated, “Check your phone.” How could this be done?
These hackers are constantly finding ways and means to hack into computer systems and destroy them.
I think that all technologies are not private. These technologies are made in foreign countries. God knows what they place in them to track us and what we do on the Internet. I do not trust these people. I have considered, maybe someday I may cease using the Internet.
Someone who has G-Mail told me it is easier to hack. That person’s computer was hacked and destroyed and had to purchase a new one.