Nearly 5M Gmail Credentials ‘Leaked’ on Russian Bitcoin Security Forum

Alleged leaked database containing 4,929,090 Gmail email addresses and related passwords was dumped on a Russian Bitcoin Security Forum.
On September 9, user tvskit from Russian Bitcoin security forum BTCSec.com, first reported the dump of the 28.7 MB file containing more than 4.92 million of Gmail accounts and passwords, as well as several thousands of credentials from Russia’s largest email service Yandex. According to the user, 60% of these credentials are valid. Since then, a forum administrator purged the passwords from it.
A study showed that the compromised accounts mostly belonged to Russian, English and Spanish-speaking users of the Google email service, reported Russian media outlet CNews.

This post was published at Coin Telegraph on 2014-09-11.