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Russia's Leading Email Providers Experience Data Breach, Blame Phishing Not Hacking
Yandex and Mail.Ru, the largest consumer email providers in Russia, both experienced password leaks this week. The data breaches exposed the login and password information of millions of users. The companies have claim that their servers were not exposed and that instead, hackers obtained the user's passwords through phishing scams. The news comes on the heels of news that almost 5 million Gmail account details were stolen by hackers and published on a Russian forum.
