zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml
on 27 Oct 2025 22:09
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Time to check in with Mom and Dad, I guess…
solrize@lemmy.ml
on 27 Oct 2025 22:21
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Article gives no info at all about where the stolen passwords came from, but gmail itself doesn’t appear to have been hacked. It was a huge dump of stolen records a lot of which had already appeared in other such dumps. Article doesn’t say how many of the records were gmail passwords, and it was apparently news that the number was greater than zero. But, it doesn’t sound large in the sense of 183 million.
taco@anarchist.nexus
on 27 Oct 2025 23:22
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Time to check in with Mom and Dad, I guess…
Article gives no info at all about where the stolen passwords came from, but gmail itself doesn’t appear to have been hacked. It was a huge dump of stolen records a lot of which had already appeared in other such dumps. Article doesn’t say how many of the records were gmail passwords, and it was apparently news that the number was greater than zero. But, it doesn’t sound large in the sense of 183 million.
Sounds about right. Anyway, I think all the recent articles like this are just extracting clicks from the original blog post @ https://www.troyhunt.com/inside-the-synthient-threat-data/
i just checked Have I Been Pwned and it says nothing’s bad
The key is to make sure you have mfa enabled on anything important.