Nearly, 5 million Gmail accounts is reported compromised. Was your Gmail account (aka Google Account) in the list? Was your account hacked? Here’s how to find out if your Gmail account is safe. Also, what steps you should take to protect your account.
Earlier, on Wednesday, a report published on a Russian news website. The report claimed that around 5 million (exactly 4929090) Gmail accounts were compromised. The data of all Gmail usernames and passwords were published to a Russian Bitcoin forum. The poster, tvskit, claimed that 60% of the accounts are valid and the passwords are working. As the news spread, the forum administrators removed the passwords and left only the Gmail usernames in the text file. Later, Google denied of any compromise of its systems. Thus many theories started to emerge. One of the speculation made after the huge leak of Gmail accounts was a phishing attack. But the other theory seemed much more practical. The bad habit of using same account credentials on different websites.