Russia's email provider and internet portal rambler.ru has become the latest victim of a cyber attack. The attack dated back to 2012, but the internal database of the customer's were leaked online recently. This data included usernames, email addresses, ICQ numbers, passwords and social account data. All the data was found to be stored in clear text in their database.
It is claimed that Rambler.ru is the most visited website in Russia and is one of the largest sites of the world. The most common passwords used by Rambler.ru users, includes "asdasd," "123456," "000000," "654321," "123321," or "123123." Rambler.ru is the latest victim to join the list of "Mega-Breaches" revealed in recent months, when hundreds of Millions of online credentials from years-old data breaches on popular services, including LinkedIn, MySpace, VK.com, Tumblr, and Dropbox, were exposed online.
Users are advised to change their passwords for Rambler.ru account as well as other online accounts immediately, especially those using the same passwords
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