Careful: 5M Gmail usernames, passwords leaked

If you use the same password for multiple accounts, now might be a good time to make each of those passwords complex and unique and use Gmail’s two-factor authentication – connecting your accounts to a phone number or backup codes for verification – to maintain the tightest security on your email. Approximately 4.93 million usernames and passwords were reportedly published on a Russian Bitcoin forum on September 10. Google, however, does not believe this to be a security breach, saying that “no evidence that our systems have been compromised, but whenever we become aware that accounts may have been, we take steps to help those users secure their accounts.” An update from Lifehacker notes some users on Reddit who also claim that the leak appears to be passwords leaked from other websites and were associated (rather than connected) to Gmail addresses.

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