Might be a good time to change your passwords!

 Report: Russian hacker is trading email credentials for 272.3 million accounts

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2016/05/05/report-russian-hacker-is-trading-email-credentials-for-272-3-million-accounts.html?intcmp=hpbt3 

It may be time to update the password for your email. Usernames and passwords for more than 250 million stolen Yahoo Mail, Gmail, Hotmail, and other accounts are being swapped around in Russia's criminal underworld, according to Reuters. These stolen accounts were discovered by Hold Security, where researchers found a Russian hacker, dubbed as "the Collector," bragging that he was ready to "give away" these credentials, which totaled 1.17 billion records.

The security company eliminated duplicates, and found the total number of compromised accounts to be 272.3 million.The largest amount of compromised credentials, 57 million, belong to Mail.ru users, which is Russia's most popular email service. The email service has 64 million monthly active users, which means the breach affects most of the company's userbase. 

The rest break down to other popular email clients including Yahoo Mail, which reportedly has 40 million emails compromised; Microsoft Hotmail, with 33 million; and Gmail, with 24 million stolen credentials. Other credentials from email providers in Germany and China are also affected. It's not clear if any of these accounts have actually been breached.Many of the emails link to employees of some of the largest U.S. banking, manufacturing, and retail companies. Hold Security has been informing affected companies and organizations.