Alleged leak of more than 5M Gmail accounts
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Alleged leak of more than 5M Gmail accounts
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Re: Alleged leak of more than 5M Gmail accounts
#2Every time something like this is posted, where there is a site to check if your email address is in some leaked list, I really wish they'd just tell me how to get the list itself. Instead, they ask me to trust that they will not use my email address, and I have to hope that they won't leak it.
I generally don't bother, because it's just more security risks.
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#3It's nowhere near advisable for anyone to submit their address to that box.
Notwithstanding the questionable reliability of this what is meant by "leaked"? a trove of phished credentials does not really qualify as a "leak".
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#4On August 20 an address of mine was entered and my Origin account was subsequently compromised. Looks like this leak matches the creds that account had before I reacted. Happily enough it was a low equity account, I had 2FA and nothing else seems to have been grabbed.
Edit: to clarify, I had 2FA on an account which alerted me to the Gmail compromise. I obviously messed up with that email account.
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#5Every time something like this is posted, where there is a site to check if your email address is in some leaked list, I really wish they'd just tell me how to get the list itself. Instead, they ask me to trust that they will not use my email address, and I have to hope that they won't leak it. I generally don't bother, because it's just more security risks.
"If you don't like to specify your full email address for any reason, you can replace up to 3 characters with asterisk sign (e.g., for myaccount@gmail.com enter myac*nt@gmail.com), thus we'll show you a count of matches for this pattern. We respect your privacy."
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#6Every time something like this is posted, where there is a site to check if your email address is in some leaked list, I really wish they'd just tell me how to get the list itself. Instead, they ask me to trust that they will not use my email address, and I have to hope that they won't leak it. I generally don't bother, because it's just more security risks.
Exactly. just show me the list and let me do a command+f. I'm not trying to enter my email into their system.
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#7I used the wildcard and mine is not in it.
So I don't think this is a hack of google itself, but rather just collecting addresses from elsewhere and collecting the gmail ones.
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#8Every time something like this is posted, where there is a site to check if your email address is in some leaked list, I really wish they'd just tell me how to get the list itself. Instead, they ask me to trust that they will not use my email address, and I have to hope that they won't leak it. I generally don't bother, because it's just more security risks.
Exactly. just show me the list and let me do a command+f. I'm not trying to enter my email into their system.
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Re: Alleged leak of more than 5M Gmail accounts
#10Every time something like this is posted, where there is a site to check if your email address is in some leaked list, I really wish they'd just tell me how to get the list itself. Instead, they ask me to trust that they will not use my email address, and I have to hope that they won't leak it. I generally don't bother, because it's just more security risks.
Exactly. just show me the list and let me do a command+f. I'm not trying to enter my email into their system.
Are you being serious? Next time you search google, would you rather they display 5,000,000 results on one page and you Ctrl+F the response?