'Treasure Trove' of Personal Details Found
The batch could be used to launch email scams and crack into online accounts, experts said
By Kevin Rawlinson, BBC News, February 26, 2014
A “treasure trove” of stolen personal details has been found on sale on black market websites, a security firm says.
About 360 million account credentials including email addresses and passwords were reportedly uncovered.
Hide Security said it had also found 1.25 billion email addresses without passwords.
It is unknown where the credentials, which were found in the past three weeks, came from – but the company said they included major email providers.
I don't know where I saw a similar report but it caused me to change my passwords on every site I could find. Read more @ Time To Change Your Banking and Email Passwords? ? LewRockwell.com

The batch could be used to launch email scams and crack into online accounts, experts said
By Kevin Rawlinson, BBC News, February 26, 2014
A “treasure trove” of stolen personal details has been found on sale on black market websites, a security firm says.
About 360 million account credentials including email addresses and passwords were reportedly uncovered.
Hide Security said it had also found 1.25 billion email addresses without passwords.
It is unknown where the credentials, which were found in the past three weeks, came from – but the company said they included major email providers.
I don't know where I saw a similar report but it caused me to change my passwords on every site I could find. Read more @ Time To Change Your Banking and Email Passwords? ? LewRockwell.com
