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This week saw the announcement that yet another database has been hacked. This one held a whopping five million Gmail addresses and passwords. Most of the announcements also linked to a third-party site where you could check to see if your Gmail address was one of those hacked. I am always suspicious of these sites, because they could very easily be collecting all those email addresses for their own purposes.<\/p>\n

Here, however, is a site that I trust, LassPass, that has a lookup tool not only for the newest Gmail leak, but for a handful of previous leaks as well. To find out if your Gmail password was among those hacked, check your Gmail address at LassPass<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Whether or not your Gmail address was included in the recent heist, here’s some advice on what to do next:<\/p>\n

1) Change your Gmail password to a unique password you do not use anywhere else.<\/p>\n

2) Add Google’s two-step authentication to your Google account<\/a> so that even if your password is stolen, your account can not be accessed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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