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Google Recommends Changing Password, But Doesn't See Big Threat in Recent Gmail Password Exposure

  • NBC News, Thursday, September 11, 2014 10:44 AM
Google has responded to yesterday's news that almost 5 million Gmail logins and passwords were exposed on a Russian online forum. The company reported that the breach was not a big threat, but suggested that users change their passwords just to be on the safe side. "We found that less than 2% of the username and password combinations might have worked, and our automated anti-hijacking systems would have blocked many of those login attempts," the company wrote in a blog post.

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