List of 5 Million 'Gmail Passwords' Leaked

A list of almost five million Gmail addresses and passwords culled from various websites was posted on a Russian online forum Tuesday.

Mashable and other technology news websites reported that the leaked passwords are not necessarily those used to access Gmail accounts but seem to have been compiled from other websites, including some where Gmail addresses were used to register.
Several internet security experts who examined the leaked list, which was posted as a text file to the Russian online forum Bitcoin Security, reported on Twitter that the passwords appear to be several years old. Danish cybercrime specialist Peter Kruse of the CSIS Security Group tweeted that the leak "likely originates from various sources" and that most of the leaked passwords are more than three years old. Even if this dump is simply a collection of old passwords belonging to minor sites, the issue is always the same: password reuse. If you tend to reuse your passwords, stop doing this.