5 Million Gmail Passwords Leaked, Check Yours Now

[Xilo]

Not on the list, but I'm on two factor authentication anyways so it doesn't matter much.

[+E.Worm Jimmy Subscriber¹]

guys.   isleaked was registered  2 days ago

 

 

now i feel like an idiot to put my email into it.   probably harvesting more email addresses, to hack them :(

[trag3dy]

I'm I the only person struggling to open and search that text file?

 

Notepad is obviously going to fall over, but even Wordpad and Word are having trouble with it. I thought Excel might save the day, but even that has a limit.

 

Try Notepad++ if you're still having issues getting it to open.

[Pupik]

guys. isleaked was registered 2 days ago

now i feel like an idiot to put my email into it. probably harvesting more email addresses, to hack them :(

But then how it knew the first two characters of my old password, if it was only created to harvest e-mail addresses?

[Praetor]

now i feel like an idiot to put my email into it.   probably harvesting more email addresses, to hack them :(

 

so? It doesn't mean that the emails were active or it was yours, as well. It could be anyone email and those aren't difficult to crawl.

[+E.Worm Jimmy Subscriber¹]

But then how it knew the first two characters of my old password, if it was only created to harvest e-mail addresses?

 

did it now?      well maybe it was working at crawling the leak sources too.   which it reassuring. 

[techbeck]

I'm I the only person struggling to open and search that text file?

 

Notepad is obviously going to fall over, but even Wordpad and Word are having trouble with it. I thought Excel might save the day, but even that has a limit.

 

I used Notepad++ and it opened it just fine.

[Nagisan]

Check the addresses of myself and my family, one family member appeared on the list but it was an old password anyway (which was changed about 5 months ago), so the list is quite dated.

 

As for my own, two-factor authentication would have stopped anyone from gaining access if my password had been leaked.

[Pupik]

The list is definitely older than 5 months. I didn't change my password for my Google account in over 2 years (using 2-step verification security and not using the google account for anything other than g-mail as my spam collector) and it still showed my old password in the leak.

[benthebear]

guys.   isleaked was registered  2 days ago

 

 

now i feel like an idiot to put my email into it.   probably harvesting more email addresses, to hack them :(

 

I read that too. The explanation I read in the comments is that other services had leaks a few days ago, and that's what the site was originally set up. Searching for Gmail addresses was added later  

[arrrgh]

Found my account on it but the password was one that I only used on some forums, looks like they just hacked some badly maintained forums and "assumed" that users used the same password for their actual Google accounts.

[primexx]

appears to be just a bunch of passwords from third party sites associated with @gmail.com addresses. not an actual gmail breach.

[MikeChipshop Member]

Two factor FTW!

 

Mine wasn't on the list but a few mates' were. Have informed them and shared this on my forum. Cheers for the heads up.

I read that too. The explanation I read in the comments is that other services had leaks a few days ago, and that's what the site was originally set up. Searching for Gmail addresses was added later  

 

Thankfully i didn't use the site, but the list available on Mega. Never can be to sure.

[Guth]

I'm I the only person struggling to open and search that text file?

 

Notepad is obviously going to fall over, but even Wordpad and Word are having trouble with it. I thought Excel might save the day, but even that has a limit.

sublime text opened it no issues at all.

 

Sublime is sublime

[Draconian Guppy]

Better safe than sorry

[sundayx Veteran]

Interestingly, last week I received a security warning email from Google about a failed login attempt came from CA...

 

So just a recap guys, were passwords compromised and is a password change recommended? (I'd guess so)