![]() A website called " " has been created, allowing users to type in their email address and see if it is on the list. Luckily for users, there is a way to check if an email address is on the list. The leaked emails and passwords allegedly come from English, Russian and Spanish-speaking nations. "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."Īlong with email addresses from Google accounts, the list also included accounts from Yandex, a Russian search engine. ![]() "The security of our users is of paramount importance to us," said a spokesperson for Google. The exact number of addresses that were leaked is 4,930,000 and CSIS has confirmed that a number of the email address and password combinations were never used on Google accounts themselves, further reinforcing the idea that they come from other sources. The data appears to be as much as three years old and is likely a compilation from smaller hacks rather than one massive hack. ![]() What this means is that Google itself was not hacked, but rather other websites in which users have used their Gmail addresses as usernames have been hacked.
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