{"id":18547,"date":"2016-05-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/change-your-password-now-if-you-use-one-of-these-popular-email-services\/"},"modified":"2016-05-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T00:00:00","slug":"change-your-password-now-if-you-use-one-of-these-popular-email-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/lifestyle\/change-your-password-now-if-you-use-one-of-these-popular-email-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Change your password now if you use one of these popular email services"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Customers of some of the most popular web services in the world are being urged to change their passwords after hackers stole a huge amount of personal information.<\/h3>\n<p>During the week it was discovered&nbsp;that usernames and passwords for 272.3 million accounts had been hacked, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-cyber-passwords-idUSKCN0XV1I6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of data was stolen from users of Mail.ru (Russia\u2019s most popular email service), but also included users of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft email services \u2013 three of the biggest providers in the world.<\/p>\n<p>According to cyber security expert Alex Holden, the number of compromised Google, Yahoo and Microsoft accounts is in the tens of millions.<\/p>\n<p>He said a young Russian hacker had been bragging online about stealing the info, which is now being traded in Russia\u2019s criminal underworld.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis information is potent,\u201d Holden said. \u201cIt is floating around in the underground and this person has shown he&#8217;s willing to give the data away to people who are nice to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese credentials can be abused multiple times,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The attack is one of the biggest since U.S. banks were hit two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Moral of the story? Change your password.<\/p>\n<p>According to Reuters, because hackers know people are reluctant to change their passwords, they reuse old passwords found on one account to try to break into other accounts of the same user.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t put it off any longer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/eddie-betts-laughs-off-bruising-from-highchair-mishap\">EDDIE BETTS LAUGHS OFF FREAK ACCIDENT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/jay-weatherill-calls-uber-s-bluff-on-fiveaa-breakfast\">JAY WEATHERILL CALLS UBER\u2019S BLUFF ON FIVEAA BREAKFAST<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Customers of some of the most popular web services in the world are being urged to change their passwords after hackers stole a huge amount of personal information. 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