Posted on 09/11/2014 8:39:02 AM PDT by Enlightened1
This week, a list of nearly five million Gmail addresses paired with passwords appeared online, posted in a Russian Bitcoin security forum. Some people who checked the list and found their Gmail addresses there reported that it contained an old password for them, and often a password that they had reused on multiple sites. There’s speculation that the addresses may hay been stolen from other sites where people used their Gmail address as a log-in
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Google discloses again....and how much money did they make this time?? Change your password!!
Yeah. Don’t worry about it...Google has been reading your email for years. So this is nothing.
Very well said!
Change my password? I have, at least six times! Every time I try to log on with the previous password, Gmail refuses to recognize it, I have to create a new password. But it recognizes the old password, and every prior one, to the extent that it won’t let me use that one when making a new password.
A big pain in the ass. They can go ahead and leak all of mine for all it’s worth; none of them work apparently.
LOL! That’s right!
The site that Forbes warns about, is.leaked, allows you to obscure three characters of your address. It then shows the compromised addresses that are possible matches to your address. You don’t need to provide your full email address to them.
From the Forbes article:
A site — IsLeaked.com — to check if your address is in the leak immediately popped up. Blogger James Watt points out that the site was created September 8, the day before the list was posted to the Bitcoin forum, and is warning people not to use it, saying it might be a honey pot to collect email addresses.
A bit late of Google to release a statement and for the press (which initially hyped the isleaked site) to warn against it.
I would’ve been hesitant to go there had I not found that I could provide an obscured address. With the ability to make a check without disclosing your full address, the possibility of it being a honeypot for spammers gathering email addresses is greatly reduced.
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