If you open your email today you might find a series of emails from a range of social channels, email providers, and banks asking you to change your password.

Due to an encryption flaw, now named the “Heartbleed bug”, this bug has affected many popular websites and services right across the internet. Heartbleed has even affected the likes of Gmail and Facebook. This encryption flaw could have  exposed your sensitive account information from  passwords through to credit card numbers over the past two years.

For more details on the social media channels  and other areas affected head to http://mashable.com/2014/04/09/heartbleed-bug-websites-affected/?cid=146326