Massive data breach : passwords of 272 million e-mail users
Russian hackers managed to obtain 272 million e-mail & passwords, mainly from mail.ru (57 million) , but also yahoo (40M), hotmail (33M) , and gmail (24M).
This was discovered when a young hacker couldn’t keep himself from bragging in an online forum.
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-passwords-idUSKCN0XV1I6