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Phishing scam opened up Hotmail

Source: The Observer

London : United Kingdom | 2 months ago

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Gmail, AOL and Yahoo email logins posted online in phishing scam More than a quarter of a million email accounts on the biggest webmail services are believed to be at risk from online criminals after thousands of passwords belonging to users of the Yahoo , AOL and Gmail services were posted online.

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