Every day, the regular news about compromised accounts of popular services. Yesterday – Mail.ru, the day before yesterday – Yandex, and today – Gmail, aka Google, as access to all Google services performed under a single login. One gets the feeling that someone deliberately “merges” the network accounts once a day.
On contact with the Internet database of nearly 5 million pairs of login and password for the first time reported by users of the forum Bitcoin Security, which is laid out in a base logins text file without passwords. At the time of writing this forum works intermittently. Later, the information discussed on the popular HabraHabr.ru. The researchers found that about 60% of couples are relevant. Among them are Russian-, English-and Spanish-speaking logins.
Earlier Mail.ru and Yandex emphasized that compromise user data was not the result of hacking systems, but criminals have collected their own with the help of viruses and phishing. It is possible that the situation with Gmail situation in the same way.
Google’s reaction to the incident is still unknown. Whatever it was, the owners of compromised accounts (and not only them) is to change the password, and it is desirable for a stronger.
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