4.93 million Gmail account leakage? Google says there are no signs of system Intrusion

According to tnw, September 11 Beijing time, about 4.93 million Gmail users and passwords were released to a Bitcoin forum in Russia, which was subsequently disclosed by the Russian website cnews. This is a bad news, but the good news is that the scale of further checks on Gmail account password leaks does not seem to be large.

Tnw contacted Google on this issue. Google does not think this leak is caused by any security vulnerability.

A Google spokesman told tnw that Google users' information security is their top priority. There is no evidence that their system has been intruded, but Google has realized that the account has been leaked. Next, we will take measures to help those users retrieve their accounts.

It is worth mentioning that the forum administrator has cleared the text password in the discussion post and left only the login name. However, a forum user named "tvskit" said that about 60% of the user names and passwords published are valid.

Quick analysis of text files found that most of the accounts are English, Spanish and Russian, and the related analysis also shows that these accounts have been accumulated for a long time. Therefore, this may be the result of a hacker attack that is unrelated to Gmail and any Google service. Why? Because some users use the same account and password on all websites, once they are phishing, related leaks will naturally occur.

It is reported that this leak will affect at least 5 million of Gmail users. If you want to check whether your account has been leaked, go to the isleaked.com website and enter your email address. Google has taken measures to protect the security of these user accounts, and recommends that all users take two steps to verify.

Check site: https://isleaked.com/results/en

4.93 million Gmail account leakage? Google says there are no signs of system Intrusion