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Old 08-21-2014, 07:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Kahuna32162 View Post
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/te...ials.html?_r=0

According to the New York Times, a Russian gang has stolen as many as 1.2 Billion username and password combinations and up to 500 Million email addresses from Internet databases.
I was one of the unlucky ones that has their email hijacked. Every time I turned on my laptop to pull mail THOUSANDS of attempted emails that were rejected would flood my inbox and junk mail.
I had to have it blocked at the server back in Louisiana till we could figure it out - 64,000 msgs in inbox and another 50,000+ in junk folder. Finally working again and password is long and complicated, but apparently this is what we must do these days.