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Here We Go Again: 5 Million Gmail Passwords Have Leaked

Here We Go Again: 5 Million Gmail Passwords Have Leaked

The Daily Dot is reporting that five million Gmail passwords have leaked on a Russian bitcoin site, which is about the most absurd sentence you’re likely to read today. Supposedly, Gmail itself has not been leaked—but these passwords have been cracked (Reddit is theorizing that the passwords were actually taken from sites associated with Gmail accounts). In any case, you should definitely see if your password is among them. Plug your email into this tool and it will tell you whether or not your password is OK. Or, if you’d rather be on the safe side, just change your passwords …

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