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The password theft of 5 million GMail accounts has been carried out. The theft did not occur on Google's servers but was obtained from another source. If you are one of those who use the same password for several services, it is highly recommended that you change it. In my case I am affected although the password that they have stolen from me is not the same as the one for Gmail but another one that I usually use in some registrations. You can download the complete list of affected emails (without passwords) from here. And you can check if your account is compromised at this site. You can replace up to three characters of your account with asterisks in case you do not want to reveal it. If you enter the full name and are affected, the first two characters of the password that was stolen from you will be shown.Toda la actualidad en la portada de Hardlimit
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Well, what a mess… I downloaded the Zip and my Gmail account doesn't appear. To be honest, it's a nuisance because it's the account I use on my mobile and I receive important things there, so these scares bother me a bit.
Lately I see too many news like this, and it bothers me a lot. To be honest, I have to review my password policy, because with so much mess more than once I don't even remember... I have them on a piece of paper (let's see if they have the nerve to hack it :osvaisacagar:) the bad thing is that I lose the paper, jajaja.
Best regards!!
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To be honest, I am not a computer scientist and I don't know anything about these topics, but every day I am more aware that 100% security does not exist on the internet.
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[…] The theft did not occur on Google's servers but was obtained from another source.[…]
Which one?
Edit: I think I found a news article about the issue. http://www.24horas.cl/tendencias/mundodigital/gmail-sufre-con-nueva-trampa-para-robar-contrasenas-1137275
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It's not that security doesn't exist at 100% it simply doesn't exist, we are using network hardware with hidden backdoors, security code with flaws, dozens of private companies of which we don't know what treatment they give to our data... You don't need to be an engineer, internet security doesn't exist and never has existed.
I've been seeing all this coming for years, either there's a revolution in security or there will start to be very serious problems. No one, not even big companies, takes security and privacy seriously, and they won't until they have very significant losses.
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The topic of absolute security, today, is impossible.
I have a home server through which I offer, among other things, a couple of websites that I have. I manage it from SSH and I receive dozens of access attempts every minute. I have a strong password and when I see that some smart guy goes too far, I blacklist him. In any case, the security of my server depends exclusively on no smart guy figuring out my password by brute force. And sometimes I receive attacks from thousands of IPs simultaneously, which makes it impossible to do blacklisting.
If it's me who has nothing, I don't even want to imagine the crap they try to do to Google's servers.
In this case it was not Google's servers, but that day will come.
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I saw it yesterday and one of mine was there, but I had changed the password recently.
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Mine is not compromised either, although it is difficult since I do not use it except for Google services on Android and Youtube. As an email account, I have been using one from GMX for a long time and for the job of OpenMailBox.
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Mine was clean luckily, but these things are pretty scary... We are already targets even the mere mortals without fortune or power.
It's exactly what Bm4n says, security doesn't exist, there's no "internet police patrol" that's looking at every port to see who's snooping. This is more like a schoolyard where the strongest ruled the roost...
