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A database containing usernames and passwords for almost five million Google accounts emerged on a Russian forum late on September 9. The user dumpin...

The user dumping the information on Bitcoin Security board uses the online alias “tvskit” and says that although not all the entries are valid, more than 60% of them should be working; all passwords are provided in plain text.

It is unclear how the information was collected, but the most plausible theory is that the attacker(s) gathered the details through phishing and different forms of data exfiltration, such as the use of infostealing malware.

LivingSocial, the online offers site owned in largish part by Amazon, has just emailed its userbase, said to be 50,000,000-strong, to fess up to a data breach.

Another day, another shed-load of ...

We also encourage you, for your own personal data security, to consider changing password(s) on any other sites on which you use the same or similar password(s).

That's also good advice, but a few more words would have made it even better: if you've used the same password on multiple sites,

===> change the passwords on those sites so that they are all different. <===

Q. Why not use a password manager that can generate hard-to-guess passwords for you, and secure them with one super-password?

A. But what if the password manager gets breached?

Download the 2013 #DBIR from Verizon for the latest on data security threats.