FRANKFURT: 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 e-mail service, and smaller fractions of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft e-mail users, said Alex Holden, founder and chief information security officer of Hold Security.
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