Yeah It's true 5 million Gmail Accounts Passwords Leaked. Gmail username and passwords have been leaked online. And You will have to change your Gmail accounts passwords again, so as to be safe. Through a public Forum all these Gmail usernames and passwords have been made available online. This has just established a threat among the Gmail users. Check If your account is in threat.

Mainly all the important information and login credentials are saved in the Gmail accounts of all people and this news has just created a threat in the mind of all, if they are safe or not. It was a Russian website that had made all this confidential information available online. All these credentials were seemed to be old and was a result of multiple data security breaches. The source provide information that all these passwords may not be similar to your Gmail passwords, they may be similar to the passwords that you have entered on other websites on which you have registered using Gmail.

Gmail Accounts Passwords Leaked

This news caught fire when a user on Reddit provided information about this breach and the archive file of the passwords and username details were found on a Forum: Russian Security Forum. This was posted by user of the forum naming "tvskit", this news was provided by C News, Russian news.

The hacker or the person who provided this information on the internet, told that this list contained about 5 million users account details, which were English, spanish and Russian accounts and about 60% of these accounts were active according to him.

Peter Kruse, CTO of CSIS claimed that,"We can't confirm that the active accounts percentage is 60%, but a great amount of these credentials were legitimate."

Google Claimed No Security Breach

Google on other side has claimed that this was not a security breach into the system of Gmail, it was probably a Phishing or unauthorized campaign. And it is not any type of security breach of the Gmail data.

These login credentials have provided an access to the google accounts as well as the Google Wallet and other such Google Applications.

Am I affected?

To check if your account has been included in this breach, just check the website: isleaked.com which allows all the users to check if their account has been affected by this breach. And it is recommended that all the people who are feeling threat from this attack, can change their passwords as soon as possible.

And for better security of your account, just enable the two factor authentication of your accounts, so that if any body from other geo region tries to enter to your account, a verification is sent to your mobile phone first.