Gmail breach?

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Gmail breach?

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Overnight a Russian hacker has posted up 5 million gmail accounts and passwords.

It may be a good idea to change yours now just in case..
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Source?
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Thanks for the warning. I think it's ok though.

Nearly 5 million Gmail addresses and its corresponding passwords were posted by alleged Russian hacker in a Russian Bitcoin online forum on Tuesday.
One of the forum users, who also posted a screen shot of some crossed-out accounts, claimed that over 60% of their corresponding passwords are valid.
However, Google said majority of the 4,929,090 Gmail addresses posted appeared to be out of date and invalid.
The tech giant also assured that there was no evidence that their systems have been breached.The full list has been taken down on Wednesday.
Google said the leaked Gmail addresses and passwords were most likely gathered through years of phishing scams and hacking of individual accounts.
It added that users don’t have change their passwords because of the post, but rather because it’s been a while since they last changed their password.
Google likewise suggested that users set up a 2-step verification process, which requires users to enter a second verification code whenever someone tried to sign in on a public computer.

http://www.techsonia.com/almost-5-milli ... e/1923997/
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Re: Gmail breach?

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According to the Daily Dot, nearly 5 million usernames and passwords associated with Gmail accounts have been leaked on a Russian Bitcoin forum. Here's what you should know.

The list has since been taken down, and there's no evidence that Gmail itself was hacked—just that these passwords have been leaked. Most sources are saying that lots of the information is quite old, so chances are they were leaked long ago—

check ur gmail address here,
http://securityalert.knowem.com/
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