Email phishing attack spreading
Following up on yesterday’s report of stolen Hotmail passwords, Neowin reports other services have also been attacked:
Microsoft confirmed yesterday evening that the popular web email service, Hotmail, had been targeted by malicious fraudsters in what is commonly referred to as a phishing scam, tricking users into revealing their credentials at fake websites.
Neowin can today reveal that more lists are circulating with genuine account information and that over 20,000 accounts have now been compromised. Non-Hotmail passport accounts have been affected too. A new list contains email accounts for Gmail, Yahoo, Comcast, Earthlink and other third party popular web mail services. It’s not clear if this is login information for the service itself or the Microsoft Passport passwords.
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