Hundreds of millions of usernames and email passwords have been stolen and offered to the highest bidder via the Internet.
This is an important user data filtering worldwide that compromise the security and privacy of the major email services. Both Gmail, and Outlook, Yahoo and other email services.
This was confirmed by a security firm Reuters, which have echoed filtration.
A young Russian origin claimed to have collected more than 1,000 million data from different e-mail services and web pages, also showing its willingness to sell them and give them away.
As reported by Reuters, the young Russian hacker seemed willing to offer all this amount of information for less than a dollar, but decided to give all the information to the security company that has uncovered gap after reaching an agreement under which it undertook to speak positively about the hacker in different security forums.
Currently only Mail.ru, Yahoo and Microsoft have confirmed the security breach and theft of this information. Faced with this problem, it is best to change passwords, creating a new one that prevents a hacker has accessed the user's credentials can see the inbox or engaged profile.