05-05-2016 13:30 via indianexpress.com

Big data breaches found at major email services: Report

Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo mail hacked and details traded in Russia’s underworld market (Source: Thinkstock Images)
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 told Reuters.
The discovery of 272.3 million stolen accounts included a majority of users of Mail.ru, Russia’s most popular email service, and smaller fractions of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft email users, s
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