Mail.ru denies mass password breach; researcher stands by findings


Mail.ru logo is seen in front of a displayed binary code in this illustration taken, May 4, 2016. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

FRANKFURT: Russia's top Internet company, Mail.ru said a sliver of its users' e-mail accounts was vulnerable while denying that tens of millions of other users were at risk after researchers found its data circulating among cyber criminals. 

The company said in a statement credentials tied to its email accounts appeared to have been stolen from other, unrelated sites such as social networks or e-commmerce sites that ask users to sign up using e-mail addresses like Mail.ru and pick passwords, which most often will not be the same as those for the e-mail accounts. 

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