Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Big Scam Hits Email Accounts

BBC News reports about a big scam that has hit more than 30,000 email account. Account details had been posted online in two lists. First list of over 10,000 Hotmail account credientals had been reported yesterday and today there was a report of second list that contains over 20,000 email account credientals. The Credientals on this list include Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, Gmail and also some from Earthlink and Comcast. It's still unclear whether or not both lists are related to same phishing scam.

Email scam related BBC articles:
Phishing attack targets Hotmail
Scam hits more e-mail accounts
Google targeted in e-mail scam

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