According to technology blog neowin.net, a series of phishing attacks has targeted free mail clients.
(A list of more than 20,000 names and passwords has been posted online, including account details of Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, AOL and other service providers. The details were posted on 1 October to pastebin.com, a website commonly used by developers to share code. Industry advice is for users to change their passwords straight away.)