Five million Gmail accounts on the street – ZDNet.be

Hackers have managed to obtain on more than five million – mostly Russian, English and Spanish – Gmail accounts and passwords and user names leaked on the internet. This reports the Russian news agency Itar-Tass.

A Google spokesman has told Russian news agency stated that it is investigating how the hackers were able to obtain the information. For now, it seems that there is no leak in the system from Google itself was abused, but that the account information obtained through other websites.

Freedom Hacker reports that more than 60 percent of the leaked passwords currently active and thus can be exploited to break into. on accounts Google recommends that all users to change their password and set. Two-step authentication via SMS or the Google Authenticator app

The leak of Gmail accounts is the third Russian leak in one week. Earlier, the account data of millions of users of e-mail service Mail.ru and Yandex search engine were also already thrown in the street. These sites deny that there is a central flaw in their systems, and claim that the data via phishing and malware were captured. Over the three leaks around 10 million accounts were compromised.