G-Mail – 5 Millions e-mails and passwords leaked (?)

You’ve probably already heard about that ‘leak‘ of almost 5 millions of G-Mail accounts ?

On 09.09.2014 on Russian forum, user who goes by nick tvskit published, to be exact: 4.929.090 of G-Mail accounts with passwords. Some of forum users, checked few records and some of them were confirmed to be ‘working’. The list seems to be a compilation of laboriously collected data from few years back. Feedback that’s going from community state that the collection is mostly out-dated, and only partially working.

AVAST Forum – Hacked

So I’ve been checking the referer links, and I’ve came upon few from AVAST Forum. I decided to visit it and check out what they’re talking about this time (amo. they linked before to my IP Block list) :D

I didn’t had opportunity to do so, instead there is this huge announcement that forum has been hacked.

As we may read in the Ondrej Vlceks statement: attackers successfully dumped the database with your “nicknames, user names, email addresses and hashed (one-way encrypted) passwords“, but the “payment, license, or financial systems or other data” were not stolen. The leak is only from AVAST Forum, and not from AVAST itself.

❖What does that mean, and what can you do about that ? ❖