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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