According to Freedom Hacker, the original .txt file of Gmail usernames have been posted to a Russian bitcoin forum but now Gmail users who might be concerned their password may have been included are being warned not to enter their passwords into websites to check if theirs is secure. As soon as the file was released, a large number of malicious phishing sites have popped up online offering to check whether someone’s email has been hacked by asking them to provide their address. It is still unknown who is behind this Gmail leak, but there are speculations that the data is not directly obtained from Google’s servers, but rather from other websites where this data may have been entered.

Retrieved from: Silicon Republic

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