I tried it and it gave me a year old password. I am guessing they only got a hold of old passwords.
Alleged leak of more than 5M Gmail accounts
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Re: Alleged leak of more than 5M Gmail accounts
#12Links to zip archive with plain email list (without passwords):
https://mega.co.nz/#!ewU1wCKA!P52rdL5tMcugRxi8ALyZlGnfE_KSB4...
Alternative: http://rghost.net/57937836
The thing is that this site mentions other site where in comments section you can find links to 7zip archive with emails
Re: Alleged leak of more than 5M Gmail accounts
#13It says mine is in it but suggests the wrong password. I don't think I even had a password with those letters plus I've had 2FA for a while now. Wonder how legit this is.
Re: Alleged leak of more than 5M Gmail accounts
#14My older account (8+ years) was leaked but my more recent one (4+ years) was not.
EDIT: This was good to find out because I did not have 2 factor auth on my older account as I hardly use it anymore.
Re: Alleged leak of more than 5M Gmail accounts
#15Weird, it gives me a very old password.
Though back when I had that password my account was hacked. I'd wager this is just Gmail address+password combos collected from other leaks (read: not from Google). Really this just seems to be an attempt at sensationalizing.
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#16can anyone talk about how this site works and where they get the list of leaked email address from ?
Re: Alleged leak of more than 5M Gmail accounts
#17Tried it with mine and it said yes but had the password wrong. It didn't match a password I've ever used...
Re: Alleged leak of more than 5M Gmail accounts
#18It'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".
I just tried it with my old Gmail account that I no longer use, and it displayed the first two letters of my password. The password was random letters and numbers, 16 characters, so not easily guessable. Seems legit to me :-)
Re: Alleged leak of more than 5M Gmail accounts
#19It's suggesting a password that I do use on some sites, but never have on Gmail. I think this is a scraped database from somewhere else...
Re: Alleged leak of more than 5M Gmail accounts
#20My Gmail was hacked a few years ago. This database showed the first two letters of the password I had at the time.
I had (stupidly) been using the same password on other sites, so after I was hacked i made a new password just for gmail.
Now I also have two factor authentication :)