As news of 183 million account credentials being leaked spreads, Gmail users have been confirmed as caught in the crosshairs. Here’s what you need to know.
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.
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/