Posted on 09/11/2014 9:18:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As you may have heard, Russian hackers have published the passwords for roughly five million Gmail accounts. This follows the publication of millions of passwords for two of Russia's largest email services, Yandex and Mail.Ru.
Chances are, your account is not one of the hacked Gmail accounts, because that figure of five million represents only a fraction of the number of Gmail accounts that are active in the world. For instance, the Gmail app has been downloaded one billion times to Android devices. Even back in 2012, Gmail had 350 million users.
But a group of programmers have decided to help you check your email all the same. A website called Isleaked.com will tell you if your email account is one of the five million. Just type in your email, and if it has been hacked, the website will show you the first two letters of your password.
When we tried it, it told us our email was not leaked.
Isleaked.com
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
What is this ‘gmail’ you speak of?
Just send me your credit card information. I’ll tell you.
Surely you jest nave...Thou foundest that 1Password slayest that foe.
Do you happen to live in Nigeria by chance?
The crap media is hyping this suspect site (which may have been established before the data breech was made public) while there are others (including one by a (n ex-?) Microsoft employee).
If the site is of undetermined safety, STOP PROMOTING IT. Damn the media.
“By the way, click our sponsor link to get your identity back together”
Who is the editor at these sites?
I’m sure “Peggy” will be glad to help you Discover if your password has been hacked.
There were several clues to whether it was legit or not.
1. The ‘about us’ link didn’t work.
2. The social media thumbnails didn’t take me to where I expected.
3. How would they know if my account was hacked on gmail?
4. Why don’t I just change my password without checking it on this dubious webpage? . It’s always different then any other password I have because it’s the gatekeeper account for all your online verifications.
5. Google’s response was — they knew of no gmail account hacks.
It may still be legit, but see #4. It explains it all.
Isleaked is a strange website that appeared mere days before the actual Russian leak, and many professionals suspect it is a Spam Email Address harvester.
Leave it to the liberals at Business Insider to help possible hackers.
Kim Komando promoted it as safe (while also suggesting that you change your password).
I tend to trust her.
The liberal Propaganda Corps have gotten so bad, I now suspect them of actual and open collusion with the enemy.
Safe? Sure. Wise? Suspect.
Even KK can screw up.
With the ability they provide to obscure three characters of your address, I’d say it would be pretty pi$$ poor as an email harvester.
RE: Kim Komando promoted it as safe
Can you educate us as to who she is?
Kim Komando is “Your Digital Goddess!”
She has a national radio program for computers and other tech help.
Quite entertaining. And she knows computers.
And change your passwords
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