711 MILLION Gmail accounts leaked 2017steemCreated with Sketch.

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hello buddies a very shocking news for you all hurry up and change your passwords may be you are also a victim of them....

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The Onliner spambot weaponized a whopping 711 million email accounts to distribute spam emails laden with malware.

Benkow explains how Ursnif accumulates these credentials:

"To create the list, the attacker provides to the second module a list of emails and credentials like [email protected]:123456.

"Then, the module tries to send an email using this combinaison. [sic] If it works, credential are added to the SMTP list. Else, credentials are ignored."
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So... first it is email not just gmail.
second it concerns hackable passwords.
If your password is hUĝ7$-ÿ*D you don't have anything to fear.