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By SecureWorld News Team
Thu | May 5, 2016 | 5:52 AM PDT

There's a good chance that a Russian hacker could have your email credentials. According to a new report, Russian hackers have collected over 270 million credentials from sites like Gmail and Yahoo. 

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Reuters reports that an investigation by Hold Security revealed the huge stash of login details, that are said to be being traded among criminals. Many of the credentials relate to the Russian email service Mail.ru, but the team has also identified details from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.

Update: There may, however, not be too much cause for concern, asMotherboard points out that the data may in fact be taken from a series of older hacks, which means the credentials are likely useless.

The team from Hold Security was offered a tranche of 1.17 billion email user records in an online forum, and asked to pay just $1 for a copy of the data. The team refused to pay for stolen data, but was given the information anyway when it offered to post positive comments about the hacker online.

The team has since sifted through the data set to remove duplicates, revealing that it contains 270 million unique records. Alex Holden, the founder of Hold Security, told Reuters that the data was "potent," adding that the "credentials can be abused multiple times."

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