Five Million Gmail Passwords Hacked And Leaked

Mark Melin

Published onSeptember 10, 2014

Updated on May 13, 2021

If you are one of five million Gmail account holders whose passwords were hacked and published on Russian cyber-crime online forums, it might be time to change your password.

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Gmail passwords hacked, great amount of data leaked

Several electronic crime specialists noticed the breach yesterday, which involved millions of credentials for not only Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) but other webmail providers. A post on a Bitcoin security forum, cited in a PC World article, indicates that 60 percent of the sensitive information is considered valid.

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Mark Melin

Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.

Five Million Gmail Passwords Hacked And Leaked

Gmail passwords hacked, great amount of data leaked

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