Better change those passwords. Now.

A recent massive security breach perpetrated by cyber thieveshas put sensitive information including passwords, credit cardinformation and other data at risk for nearly a billion Internetusers worldwide.

The threat, which is being called "Heartbleed," was discoveredby a small team from the Finnish security firm Codenomicon. Hackershad cracked the encryption technology used to protect onlineaccounts for emails, instant messaging and a wide range ofelectronic-funds transfer.

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