It seems that Google account information leaked out in large quantities, and the information available was less than 2% of the total

ByCarlos Luna

Russian Bitcoin ForumviaApproximately 5 million Google Account usernames and passwords leakedAccording to a survey by Google, according to our research, it seems that less than 2% of the spill account information of about 5 million is actually available, and it seems that for accounts that were at risk of getting hijacked We have revealed that we have already taken password resetting measures.

Google Online Security Blog: Cleaning up after password dumps
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User account information of Google and other services leaked out of Bitcoin Forum in Russia. It was said that the number of Gmail accounts leaked was about 5 million, but it seems that the number of usable Gmail accounts was less than 2% (about 100,000). In addition, the majority of the approximately 100,000 items that seemed to have spilled out account informationAutomatic anti-account takeover systemWe were able to prevent account hijacking by. We have announced that some of the accounts that were actually at risk of hijacking account hijacks are quite a few and have taken password reset measures against them.

In addition, Google has disclosed that "Not via Google's system"We estimate that a huge amount of account information was gathered from other information sources and leaked out. For example, if you use the same user name and password for multiple services, once the account information leaks, it will become an expression that credits account information of other services. There is also a way to steal login information using malware or phishing scams.

Google insists that the security system for protecting users from malware, phishing scams, spam, etc. is working firmly on their systems, but users who use the same user name and password for multiple services , We encourage you to change your password to something specific to another Google Account,2 step verificationWe also recommend using such as.

Incidentally,The Next WebAccording to the report that most of the leaked items were Google accounts in English, Spanish, Russian.