Hack hit embassy, government e-mail accounts worldwide

A freelance security consultant discovered usernames and passwords for email accounts belonging to embassies and government agencies worldwide. The login details for agencies such as Iran's foreign ministry, Kazakh and Indian emabassies in the U.S., and Russia's embassy in Sweden where found and posted on the Internet by Dan Egerstad. He claims he was conducting an experiment and accidentally stumbled upon the information. After, he found the logins and such he forwarded an email that was from a person declining an invitation to the Russian embassy, which was emailed to an employee, at the Russian embassy. Although, some of the agencies that were involved failed to comment on the breach in information security, the Russian embassy has confirmed that the leak has indeed occurred, and measures have been taking to fix the situation. There has been no specifics on where this list is actually posted for the obvious reasons. Let's just hope the parties that haven't admitted that they have been breached have also, taken the measures to remedy the weakness. If this information could be found so easily, do you really think that your information is safe? If, the government cannot keep its information safe then that, just shows you ours in not any safer. They I am sure have taken many measures to keep this from happening, much more than a typical user would, so do you feel your safe from this happening to you?