FROM DAILY MAIL: Gmail users have been urged to check their accounts after it was revealed that more than 183 million passwords were stolen in a data breach.
Australian cyber expert Troy Hunt, who revealed the incident, called it a ‘vast corpus’ of breached data, which totals 3.5 terrabytes.
According to Mr Hunt, ‘all the major providers have email addresses in there’ – so not just Gmail, but Outlook, Yahoo and others too.
‘They’re from everywhere you could imagine, but Gmail always features heavily,’ Hunt told the Daily Mail.
To see if your account was compromised in the incident, Hunt said to open the Have I Been Pwned website, enter your email address in the search bar, and select the button marked “Check.”
The tool will show you the list of data breaches affecting your email address, even if it was. From a past breach going back over a decade.
If your email address was one of the 183 million people affected, experts say to change your email password right away.
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