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Gmail, Yahoo Mail join Hotmail; passwords exposed

Google's Gmail and Yahoo's Mail were targeted by a large-scale phishing attack, perhaps the same one that harvested at least 10,000 passwords from Microsoft's Windows Live Hotmail, according to a report by the BBC.

Gmail was the target of what Google called a large-scale phishing campaign, the company told the BBC."As soon as we learned of the attack, we forced password resets on the affected accounts," the Google spokesperson also told the BBC. "We will continue to force password resets on additional accounts when we become aware of them."

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