Almost 5 million
Gmail accounts and
passwords have been posted as
text file on a Russian
Bitcoin forum. Account details for users of
Mail.ru and
Yandex have also leaked to various websites.
Google have
released a statement which claims that these passwords were not obtained
via a hack, but the data was instead collected from
phishing websites
over several years. This leak mainly affects English,
Spanish and
Russian language users.
If you’re worried that your account could be part of this leak, I have some suggested actions for you to take:
Check your email address in the database: The
CM Security Research Lab has created a quick tool to determine whether or not your password is in the leaked list.
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