Nearly 5 Million Gmail passwords have been leaked, here's how to check yours

[Justin Kahn]

Almost 5 million Gmail passwords have been leaked according to The Daily Dot. It appears the list of leaked passwords were posted onto to a Russian Bitcoin forum.

The list of accounts and passwords has now been taken down, and many reports suggest that a good amount of the information on the list was quite old. It is described as a collection of phished and hacked data from over several years, where in many cases the accounts have been deactivated and/or contain out dated passwords. However, others claim that as much as 60% of the accounts are still in use, so it is likely a good idea to change your password anyway.

To know for sure whether or not your email address appeared on the reported list, you can use the IsLeaked tool. By entering your address (notice the privacy option below main search field), the tool will check your address against the Russian Bitcoin forum list as well recent Yandex and Mail.ru breaches. At the time of writing the IsLeaked tool is experiencing some difficulty, likely due to a large amount of traffic, but it appears to work after a few refreshes. 

As mentioned above, many of the accounts on the list were older, but it is always a good idea to change your password and ensure 2 step verification is enabled.

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[Satish Mallya]

...and if it's not leaked already, you just gave it out. Congratulations!

 

[madboyv1]

There is a reddit thread about this with a list of all the emails with passwords redacted in this most recent "leak" that is hosted on mega. It is a 29MB 7z file with a 107MB txt file (lol) compressed in it. it might take longer to check, but if you want to go that route: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comm..._of_gmail_passwords_leaked_rus_most/?sort=old


edit: Holy crap that thread got completely nuked, without it actually being out right deleted... I still have the mega link and it is still live but now I'm wary of posting it lol.

 

[cliffordcooley]

...and if it's not leaked already, you just gave it out. Congratulations!

Only the email address is given for verification. It is your password that is in question.

 

[VitalyT]

Wow! My account was leaked. It gave the first two letters of my password, one that I changed almost 2 years ago, which should tell you just how old that crap mining is.

 

[tipstir]

This isn't the first time for GMAIL to have this problem.

 

[Guest]

It is not a problem with Gmail. The problems is other website not being secure and leaking your password and people using the same password for other services like Gmail in this case.

 

[Levi Sterling]

I have the current file from mega, its 151 megs, effing huge I know. I have made a thread on my facebook for friends and family to message me and I can check theirs manually. its a pain in the *** so I linked to this here. if people want me to check manually I can be talked into it. but its a pain and I dont like doing it unless I know you and like you

 

[Guest]

Well... checked my gmail and it was in the leaked list, but the password it showed, I changed it 3 yrs ago so the DB is old...

 

[Timonius]

I checked. Out of date and I've stepped up my security measures since. Still this is good to be aware of because I'm sure we all know at least one person with bad password habits.

 

[cliffordcooley]

If I needed a strong password, I wouldn't be using a weak password. eBay is a site I've quit logging into because they forced a password reset. Since then I've had to change email addresses, because of changing ISP's. I doubt I will ever use eBay again, because if I can't login to my old account, I will not make a new one.

 

[ET3D]

Not leaked. I feel left out.

 

[ChosenoftheMoon]

Actually, when stuff like that happens, google notifies you of someone trying to log in from another location. My gmail account had several attempts due to my nick similar in several languages, I was notified then and changed my pass.

But the most security to a mail, you can give, is .... not letting any important personal information in it.

 

[aMerkuri]

Leaked but with very old password

 

[Kibaruk]

It is not a problem with Gmail. The problems is other website not being secure and leaking your password and people using the same password for other services like Gmail in this case.

So much of this.

 

[noel24]

...and if it's not leaked already, you just gave it out. Congratulations!

Only the email address is given for verification. It is your password that is in question.

Yes, but what Satish Mallya ment is that spammers probably got an active email adress now. Recently, I didn't have any spam on my main gmail account until I signed up for TD Canada to setup PayPal to buy some shoes in NB Shoefitter.ca. One of those institutions sold me out to spammers, cause I live in Europe, but getting offers of cheap canadian V-I-A-G-R-A.

 

[Kibaruk]

I can't recall the last time I actually saw spam on my gmail inbox.

It's there, on it's spam folder, and it doenst bother me, check it every other week in case something was wrongly filtered but it works really well.

Unless you are one of those who by simply seeing a number on their spam folder they'll go nuts above and beyond to delete it.

 

[noel24]

I can't recall the last time I actually saw spam on my gmail inbox.

It's there, on it's spam folder, and it doenst bother me, check it every other week in case something was wrongly filtered but it works really well.

Unless you are one of those who by simply seeing a number on their spam folder they'll go nuts above and beyond to delete it.

Yes, I'm exactly this kind of person. It drives me nuts after 6 years of empty spam folder. How dare they, spineless scums! My Pennis is fine, and according to scientific data, within median, slightly above average. ;-)