"VKontakte" closed 200 thousand accounts

The story of the leak of millions of accounts of mail services Mail.Ru, Yandex and Gmail got unexpected - negadanno continued. The most popular Russian social network Vkontakte has closed more than 200 thousand accounts.

According to the press-Secretary of "Vkontakte" Giorgi Lobaskin, the social network was forced to close more than 200 thousand accounts. Frost touched those users whose accounts were tied to postal services Mail.Ru, Yandex and Gmail.

Note that this is not the 1st of similar management practices of the social network. Last week after a massive leak of user passwords "Vkontakte" in addition "killed" accounts tied to an email address of "Yandex", informs "Russian news service".

Remember that more than a million passwords and logins to accounts from "Yandex.mail" were stolen by hackers. The data placed on the Internet in the public domain, with all this, the followers of the IT giant leak denied. About the appearance of some hacker websites database of usernames and passwords from mail Yandex told earlier 1 from users of the website Habrahabr. Just as if it was compromised 1 261 809 accounts.

After customers Yandex.mail" take care to change password from mailbox and users had Mail.ru. Archives with data more than 4.5 million users have become available online.

For audit of their accounts on the subject of getting into this database, you must use the address of your mail on such resources. "If the mail will be in a similar basis, it is advisable in any case to change the password to a new password, and all related services, which happens regeneration password to this email address, third-party services, which used a similar password", - recommend IT-experts.

sections: World News, Hi-Tech