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Five million Gmail addresses and passwords dumped online

2014-09-10 20:11:33| InfoWorld: Top News

An archive containing nearly 5 million Gmail addresses and plain text passwords was posted Tuesday on an online forum, but the data is old and likely sourced from multiple data breaches according to one security firm. A user with the online alias "tvskit" posted the archive file on a Bitcoin security forum called btcsec.com and claimed that over 60 percent of credentials found inside are valid.

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