25,000 Indian e-mail addresses and passwords posted on hacker forums...

Trend Micro has recently released a report that exposes the presence of 25,000 Indian email addresses and passwords on different hacker forums. The report states that the 25,000 Indian email addresses and passwords exposed are a mix of email ids and passwords from websites like Yahoo!, Gmail, Sify and a number of corporate email addresses.

According to Trend Micro researchers, the nature of the list indicates that the email providers themselves were not hacked, but third party websites on which these users were registered were compromised.

“This is similar to the cases of the ChristianSingles and Faithwriters websites in the USA last year, where a security issue with those websites allowed hackers to gain access to the complete user list and passwords for those websites,” commented David Peterson, Consumer Products Director, Australia and New Zealand, Trend Micro. More...

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