Dumped: how my password went public

Louis Goddard on his password woes:

On the morning of July 14th, a Saturday, I woke up to find three successive emails in my Gmail inbox. The first, received at 1:56 am, came from the movie site IMDb. The second, sent almost exactly an hour afterwards, was from Yahoo. The third was from Twitter, and it arrived at 3:02 am, just three minutes after Yahoo’s missive. From the subject lines alone, it was pretty clear what had happened.