On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Barrie Robinson <barrie@look.ca> wrote:
> Both Gmail and hotmail have been breached. I have had phony emails from
> someone who used their address books from these "cloud" services. Now it
> looks like Yahoo has been breached. This is the danger of using "cloud"
> services! Your PC is big enough to keep YOUR data on YOUR site - so why
> risk using Yahoo, Gmail et al??
While I would not rule out the possibility that gmail and hotmail have been
hacked, a much more likely explanation is that a virus/keylogger install
on millions of PCs has stolen the login credentials of the users of those
PCs. Most likely it is users' PCs where the "breach" occurred.
Why risk storing the information on your local PC?
Simon
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