New Delhi: Nearly 5 million Gmail addresses and their passwords have been compromised and leaked on a Russian Bitcoin forum. The same Google account password is used across all Google products, such as Gmail, Drive, Plus, YouTube, Maps etc.
Though the admin on the forum have removed the passwords from the text file, but the Internet is forever, so you don't know when it can appear again. It is better you should change your password immediately.
Around 60 per cent of the passwords are believed to be valid, probably obtained from websites where used their Google account detailed to register.
Google in a blog post, however, refuted the claim and said that only 2% of the passwords still work and also said that its automated anti-hijacking systems would have blocked many of the login attempts.
The leak comes just days after similar mass password dumps on the same Russian Bitcoin forum.
Earlier this week account details of more than six million users of popular Russian internet services Mail.ru and Yandex were published.
