Big data breaches found at major email services like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, mail.ru: Expert

The latest discovery came after Hold Security researchers found a young Russian hacker bragging in an online forum that he had collected and was ready to give away a far larger number of stolen credentials that ended up totalling 1.17 billion records. (Reuters) Hundreds of millions of hacked usernames and passwords for email accounts and other websites are being traded in Russia’s criminal underworld, a security expert said.
The discovery of 272.3 million stolen accounts included a majori