4.93 million Gmail usernames and passwords published, Google says ‘no evidence’ its systems were compromised

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Thursday, September 11th, 2014
4.93 million Gmail usernames and passwords published, Google says ‘no evidence’ its systems were compromised
Approximately 4.93 million Gmail usernames and passwords were published to a Russian Bitcoin forum on Tuesday, as first reported by Russian website CNews. That’s the bad news. The good news is that this leak doesn’t seem as massive upon further inspection.

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