5 million ‘compromised’ Google accounts leaked
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None of my five gmail ids (one primary and the rest for junk mail subscriptions) have been compromised.
tkin
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The possibility of that is zero, after the Chinese break in and everything, google will probably salt the passwords to oblivion and they hash them multiple times. Most probably the passwords were either intercepted or some of the users used the same passwords elsewhere. My account was not leaked but I'd used it throughout the web, only that I always use a unique password with my mail accounts, one for each.
Default gmail login is done via https, i\m highly doubtful whether any one can get the original password by intercepting the encrypted information... but again i\m not sure whether this is something to do with heartbleed
As i said in my previous post, my primary id which i use from 2004 and none of other mail id\s also not compromised.linuxtechie
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tkin
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Same here, surprising is that I had one very old gmail account which I used mostly to register myself in dubious forums and torrents sites. That account had the highest chance of getting hacked, I haven't even changed the password even once and haven't used the account in years, it didn't get compromised either.Default gmail login is done via https, i\m highly doubtful whether any one can get the original password by intercepting the encrypted information... but again i\m not sure whether this is something to do with heartbleed
However I had never signed into any Russian site, wonder if this is related to Russia only?
alekhkhanna
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