Email phishing attack at a large scale (supposedly affecting 30,000 Email accounts) is now spreading to Yahoo, Gmail, AOL, Earthlink including Hotmail. As reported by Neowin and DNA. The phishing scam appears to be tricking users to reveal their passwords at fake websites. Over 20,000 email accounts are compromised and its login and passwords are now being circulated on the internet. The lists originated from pastebin.com, a site commonly used by developers to share code snippets. We have checked PasteBin, which shows message “The leaked passwords are not on the site”.

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