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#1 Sep 10 2014 at 9:33 AM Rating: Excellent
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Five million GMail names and passwords were posted to some Russian bitcoin site. You can check and see if yours was one of them via this site.

Mine was listed and they show the first two letters of your password. It was legitimate but old -- I had changed that password a while ago.

Edited, Sep 10th 2014 10:33am by Jophiel
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#2 Sep 10 2014 at 9:35 AM Rating: Good
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No! Your account probably is not in public access! However, we are strongly recommend to change your password periodically.
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#3 Sep 10 2014 at 9:35 AM Rating: Good
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My main is safe. My dummy account showed up, but considering I use it specifically to direct spam towards I don't think I care too much. I actually don't even remember the password to it.
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#4 Sep 10 2014 at 10:06 AM Rating: Good
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It must be a leak or something that happened years ago. Neither of my email accounts were on the list. One of mine is my college account which they migrated over to gmail a few years back but kept the college address. The other is an account I made at the same time for spammy things.
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#5 Sep 10 2014 at 10:07 AM Rating: Good
It says "bad gateway" on that link for me.
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It says "bad gateway" on that link for me.

Refresh. It took a couple tries for mine.
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It must be a leak or something that happened years ago. Neither of my email accounts were on the list.

It said most of the addresses seemed to be Russian so I don't know how hard everyone else got hit. But since I was on the list and it seemed legitimate (if outdated) I'd pass the warning along.
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It's cause you deal with those Russians on Steam. Smiley: schooled
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#9 Sep 10 2014 at 10:22 AM Rating: Good
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Boris and Natasha seem so trustworthy, though.
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#10 Sep 10 2014 at 10:23 AM Rating: Good
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IBTimes UK is unable to independently verify whether it was a genuine leak and is awaiting a formal response from Google.
The response was probably held up by a bad word.

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Boris and Natasha seem so trustworthy, though.

"In exchange for e-mail list, you give us moose and squirrel, yeah?"
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#12 Sep 10 2014 at 11:02 AM Rating: Good
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My email wasn't listed but my wife's was along with her old password. Pretty scary. Her account is linked to our Paypal.
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#13 Sep 10 2014 at 11:31 AM Rating: Excellent
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I can only assume I'm not important or interesting enough to hack. None of my gmail addresses were on the list.

Edited, Sep 10th 2014 10:31am by someproteinguy
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Update from Lifehacker:

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Update 2: We still aren't sure how these passwords were leaked or when—but some folks over on Reddit discovered that these may not, in fact, be Gmail passwords, but passwords leaked from other web sites over the years that were associated with Gmail addresses. And, as we know, many people used the same password for multiple accounts—which is why some of you may find that your old Gmail password was leaked (while others are seeing passwords not from Gmail).
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#15 Sep 10 2014 at 12:43 PM Rating: Excellent
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That could be. I used to mainly use a single password for most sites until it seemed like we had a Data Breach of the Week going on regularly and I started changing them all.
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#16 Sep 11 2014 at 6:52 AM Rating: Good
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Passwords are major pain in the rump (filter testing). There's a better way - I know there is.

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#17 Sep 11 2014 at 2:44 PM Rating: Decent
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I don't bother change any passwords until I'm forced to by the site itself. If they want to disseminate my naked pics on Picasa then so be it.
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There's a better way - I know there is.

There are multiple better ways, probably hundreds. All of them require people to do something slightly different than they do now, however, so they will never be implemented.
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#19 Sep 19 2014 at 8:04 AM Rating: Decent
You probably shouldn't worry about this too much unless you're in the habit of reusing the same password all over the place. This particular leak wasn't from a compromise of google's servers. There are a few people claiming evidence that it was curated by aggregating and combining a large-ish collection of several other leaks which have been circulating over the years.

Google themselves made a statement about it:

"We found that less than 2% of the username and password combinations might have worked, and our automated anti-hijacking systems would have blocked many of those login attempts [...] We've protected the affected accounts and have required those users to reset their passwords."

Also, This is my first post. I've never used zam before (EDIT: err... I mean zam member features, like stuff where I needed to have a login) despite the first time I ever played everquest was over 10 years ago back in 2003 :)

Edited, Sep 19th 2014 10:08am by kuzetsa
#20 Sep 21 2014 at 3:58 PM Rating: Decent
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Someone just tried to log into my gmail from Taiwan. Google blocked it but said they had my password.
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