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Hackers Leak 4.93 Million Gmail Passwords

September 11, 2014
by Staff Writer

Hackers have leaked 4.93 million Gmail passwords in an attack that took place Tuesday 10 September 2014. The Gmail email addresses and passwords were posted on BTCSEC.com, a Russian Bitcoin security forum, as a plain text archive file. They belonged to English-, Russian- and Spanish-speaking users and were posted by a user with the alias “tvskit”, who suggested 60% of the passwords were current. The news comes after 4.6 million Mail.ru accounts and over 1 million Yandex email accounts were recently compromised. News of this attack was posted in the same forum.

Although sensitive, the data is old (possibly up to 3 years old) and the data does not appear to have obtained from breach at Google, but breaches at a number of sources. Many of the leaked passwords appear to have come from sites where users' Gmail credentials were used to open accounts.

“The security of our users is of paramount importance to us,” explained a Google representative in an emailed response to the issue. “We have no evidence that our systems have been compromised, but whenever we become aware that an account has been compromised, we take steps to help our users secure their accounts.”

If you are concerned that your details were released during the hack, you can check at isleaked.com.

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