YIKES... scary stuff. The following information was provided by WinXP News. Take a LOOK...
Webmail password theft problem is bigger than it first appeared. The first reports said that thousands of Hotmail accounts had been compromised when phishers gained their passwords.
Now it turns out that Gmail and Yahoo email accounts were similarly targeted as part of the same scheme. Now attackers are using the stolen passwords to send out phishing messages, while at the same time some researchers are saying that the initial theft may have been accomplished through malware infections rather than phishing responses. However it happened, we recommend that you change your passwords on all your webmail accounts, just to be safe. Read more here: http://www.wxpnews.com/R0RR3N/091013-Compromised-Email
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I had a friend with a Yahoo account that had her email compromised. Not fun. She had to waste time contacting everyone telling them not to open the phishing emails...She had a very basic password which can be a real problem. It was an easy to guess password. Wise to make sure passwords are up to 12 characters long mixed with numbers, letters, and characters if possible. At least harder for a random guess from invaders!
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