Russian email service Mail.Ru says virtually all of the leaked data for its users is invalid. Hold Security CISO Alex Holden says his firm obtained 272 million credentials for free from a young Russian hacker. The company said the collector’s data set included login credentials for multiple email services, including Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo. Holden has called those allegations “baseless,” and said his firm responded quickly to all of MailRu’s inquiries, including sharing the data leak with the email provider directly, so it could determine whether the information posed a risk.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/blogs/mailru-says-leaked-credentials-99982-invalid-p-2127