5 Million Gmail Passwords Leaked, Check Yours Now

[ZakO]

Mine is on there, but it's from the previous leak by Adobe (I only used that password for my Adobe account). Looks like someone might just be trying to make a quick buck by reselling already available data from previous leaks?

[Praetor]

Still no real info on this.  And a lot of site are not even reporting it.  Odd. 

 

It seems that it's gather from several other parts and just joined together into a massive list.

[Draconian Guppy]

Still no real info on this.  And a lot of site are not even reporting it.  Odd. 

Yeah, weird indeed!

[TAZMINATOR]

Yeah, weird indeed!

 

Still. Not bother me. :D

[naap51stang]

Mine wasn't on the list, but I changed the password, & I use the 2 step verification.

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Are you Audioboxer on xda too? haha I think you are! I see weve been in the PA thread together lol

 

Yup lol

[123456789A]

How did that happen? I figure it's not on Google's part

[+Raze Subscriber²]

As good a reason as any to change mine.  :yes:

[Raa]

Interesting, mine is on the list for a password I don't remember using...

Any way to get more info?

[vcfan]

How did that happen? I figure it's not on Google's part

people using the same password for their emails on all their other accounts. you get one account, you get them all.

[FiB3R]

I'm I the only person struggling to open and search that text file?

 

Notepad is obviously going to fall over, but even Wordpad and Word are having trouble with it. I thought Excel might save the day, but even that has a limit.

[zhangm Supervisor]

I'm I the only person struggling to open and search that text file?

 

Notepad is obviously going to fall over, but even Wordpad and Word are having trouble with it. I thought Excel might save the day, but even that has a limit.

 

Maybe just download a command line utility and grep it? Or use Powershell: gc plaintext.txt | select-string -pattern "textstringtofind"

[TDT]

I'm I the only person struggling to open and search that text file?

 

Notepad is obviously going to fall over, but even Wordpad and Word are having trouble with it. I thought Excel might save the day, but even that has a limit.

Opened fine in Wordpad in about 6 seconds. Windows 8.1, if it matters. :)

[123456789A]

people using the same password for their emails on all their other accounts. you get one account, you get them all.

 

Oh that's pretty dumb of them to use the same password.

[FiB3R]

Maybe just download a command line utility and grep it? Or use Powershell: gc plaintext.txt | select-string -pattern "textstringtofind"

I've never used Powershell, but would I be right in thinking that after launching it, I would change to the directory where the file is stored, e.g.

 

cd desktop

 

then enter the following command...

 

gc google_5000000.txt | select-string -pattern [email protected]

 

I take it the quotes are not needed? should there be a space before -string ?

 

Edit: ok, seems like it's working (no extra space or quotes), but it still takes surprisingly long per search.

 

I suppose the @gmail part isn't really needed.

[FiB3R]

Opened fine in Wordpad in about 6 seconds. Windows 8.1, if it matters. :)

Opened for me too, but struggles when it comes to searching. I thought it might just be my pc, which is a bit sluggish right now anyway, but I have tried it on multiple machines, and they all struggle with it.

 

I guess these applications are not designed to handle 100MB+ .txt files.

[FiB3R]

I should probably point out that I have around 17 gmail accounts to check, hence it being a bit of a pain in the arse when it takes longer than you expect.

[Krome]

Looks like I am pretty safe.

[xWhiplash]

How come I do not see any other tech news sites mentioning this?

[Tidosho]

Most of them look like spammer addresses, I mean, [email protected], and [email protected]? Haha, off to send a mass PWNED by AN0NYM0U5!!! message to all of them, back in a bit :)

[Tidosho]

I'm I the only person struggling to open and search that text file?

 

Notepad is obviously going to fall over, but even Wordpad and Word are having trouble with it. I thought Excel might save the day, but even that has a limit.

KWrite on Linux works for me, like everything else in Linux land, just works!

[majortom1981]

Looks like it doesn't work with google apps accounts.

[FiB3R]

KWrite on Linux works for me, like everything else in Linux land, just works!

Ha! I see what you did there :laugh:

 

Oh, wait! You weren't joking!? :rolleyes:

 

Anyways, notepad++ is doing a much better job of things. Should have thought of that in the first place.

[FiB3R]

17-0 to me :)

[Noir Angel]

Not on the list, probably phishing or from keyloggers rather than an actual hack