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Five million Gmail addresses and passwords dumped online


An archive which contained about five million gmail addresses and passwords was posted Tuesday on an online forum Tuesday. Though the data was old and likely came from several security breaches in the system according to a security firm. A user with the online name "tvskit" posted the archive on a Bitcoin security forum, btcsec.com, and claimed that over 60% of the email addresses and passwords are valid.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2605400/five-million-gmail-addresses-and-passwords-dumped-online.html

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