{"id":8072,"date":"2014-09-10T15:25:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T19:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=8072"},"modified":"2014-09-10T15:26:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T19:26:54","slug":"millions-of-gmail-passwords-leaked-was-yours-one-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/millions-of-gmail-passwords-leaked-was-yours-one-of-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions of Gmail Passwords Leaked: Was Yours One of Them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h1>5 Million Gmail Passwords Leaked, Check Yours Now<\/h1>\n<p>According to the Daily Dot, nearly 5 million usernames and passwords to Gmail accounts have been leaked on a Russian Bitcoin forum. Here&#8217;s what you should know.<\/p>\n<p>The list has since been taken down, and most sources are saying that lots of the information is quite old\u2014though others are claiming 60% of the passwords are still valid (not to mention really, really horrible).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/s--Hn93ow5Y--\/vr4yiljhdocvisyqkheq.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"358\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To check if your password was one of the leaked, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/isleaked.com\/en.php\" target=\"_blank\">plug your Gmail address into this tool <\/a><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0(which also checks against recent Yandex and Mail.ru leaks). If you&#8217;re paranoid, you may also want to change your password at this time. As always, make sure you use a <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5937303\/your-clever-password-tricks-arent-protecting-you-from-todays-hackers\" target=\"_blank\">strong password<\/a><\/span><\/strong> and<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5932700\/please-turn-on-two-factor-authentication\" target=\"_blank\">enable two-factor authentication on your account<\/a><\/span><\/strong>. \u00a0Hit the link to read more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>SOURCE: <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/FbGq9J\" target=\"_blank\">LifeHacker\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 Million Gmail Passwords Leaked, Check Yours Now According to the Daily Dot, nearly 5 million usernames and passwords to Gmail accounts have been leaked on a Russian Bitcoin forum. Here&#8217;s what you should know. The list has since been taken down, and most sources are saying that lots of the information is quite old\u2014though others are claiming\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/millions-of-gmail-passwords-leaked-was-yours-one-of-them\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1461,1433,1426,1670,1656],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8074,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072\/revisions\/8074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}