A rather lame phishing attempt.

Yesterday we reported that Microsoft Live/Hotmail was exposed to an extensive phishing scheme. Apparently the attack was more extensive than this. BBC News reports that a second list with 20,000 accounts was published. Contrary to the first list, the second list included accounts from AOL, Comcast, Earthlink, Gmail and Hotmail. With that information, we can conclude that this is an industry-wide attack, rather than an attack on a particular provider.

Phishing attacks by themselves are nothing new, but this is probably one of the biggest attacks that I have ever heard of.
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