Gmail also hit by e-mail phishing scheme
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... Google described the issue as an "industrywide phishing scheme," BBC News reported. BBC News said it has seen two lists posted online with "more than 30,000 names and passwords" from Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft's Windows Live Hotmail, and other service providers.
"We recently became aware of an industrywide phishing scheme through which hackers gained user credentials for Web-based mail accounts including Gmail accounts," a Google representative told BBC News.
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Over 30,000 email accounts compromised in industry-wide phishing scheme
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... have now been compromised across the mail services. A Google spokesperson told CNET that it recently became aware of the industry-wide phishing scheme through which hackers gained user credentials for webmail accounts. Google responded immediately by forcing a password reset on the 500 or so affected users. The company is also prepared to reset the passwords of any other newly compromised accounts. Some of the accounts exposed online are old or unused, but many are genuine. All of the companies involved are recommending that users promptly and routinely change their ...


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