Some five million Gmail addresses are Wednesday combined placed passwords on a Russian forum. Google is currently still investigating the case
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According to the person who posted the information online, 60 percent of e-mail addresses yet used. However, a Russian spokesman Google indicates that it appears that most of the information is dated. Not recently, but over the years collected.
In addition, the information could not be obtained by attacking Gmail itself, but by hacking. Services of third parties However, Google recommends especially Russian users to change their password and turn so they are safer two-step authentication
Currently, the forum in which the information is placed offline
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