https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/4i67et/experts_urge_password_changes_after_massive_cyber/

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/Experts-Urge-Password-Changes-Massive-Cyber-Attack-378338341.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_NYBrand

All the big free email providers got hit by a cyber attack and breached.
Some 272.3 million accounts were stolen - and involve some of the biggest email providers, including Google, Yahoo, Hotmail and Microsoft, according to Alex Holden of Hold Security.
doesn't matter how secure it was, because the password itself was stolen and needs to be deactivated with a new password.

if you haven't already, you should log-in to all your emails, change your passwords to a strong, new password, and set-up multi-factor authentication.

Thank you for the heads-up.

Awh jeez, now I gotta make a brand new password

Thank you for mentioning this

And according to other sites it's nothing major at all - just a media hype.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3067262/security/that-massive-data-breach-was-just-hype-email-provider-says.html
https://corp.mail.ru/en/press/releases/9613/
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hacker-272-million-email-logins-no-panic

first the Arabs logging into my account and now this


when will it end

Holy shit that was cancer. I'm never ever entering Reddit again

"Experts recommend"

k

Your email provider will inform you when you need to change your password due to a security breach, and you should be changing them regularly anyway.

Chinks got my SS and other government info last year anyway. Ruskies getting all the anime porn on my onedrive doesn't bother me.

i have like 20 emails nty

knew this was a hoax when I read the op