5,000,000 GMail accounts hacked!
A list of the hacked gmail accounts is here. It does not contain passwords. The zip file is 36Mb. The unzipped text file is 104Mb. ARK decompresses it fine and KWrite reads and searches it fine.
I didn't find my gmail account, nor the accounts of my wife or friends.
If you need to change passwords you can use /dev/urandom to generate new ones.
cat /dev/urandom| tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9-_!@#$%^&*()_+{}|:<>?='|fold -w 12| head -n 4| grep -i '[!@#$%^&*()_+{}|:<>?=]'
i6a*ri:gCHBn
&5RNiw*3iFdM
9T7dRlx^x|cx
Vylk:H64wasj
The first part generates passwords containing a through z (lower and upper), and most of the upper keys and characters.
The "fold -w 12" generates passwords that are 12 characters long. Adjust to suit your needs.
The "head -n 4" generates four passwords. Ditto.
If you only want letters and numbers then use
cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 12| head -n 4
The "/dev/urandom" generates pseudo random passwords very quickly. "random" generates more random passwords but depends more on the entropy pool. So, a 12 character password using "/dev/random" may take an hour to generate, depending on the size of your entropy pool, the amount of RAM and your CPU speed.
Including more than just letters and numbers increases significantly the size of the pool of characters which must be tested and would make dictionary attacks essentially impossible.
If you want to check the activity of your gmail account you can open it to any gmail page and look at the side or bottom for
Click on the "Details" and a window will open showing the following information:
I didn't find my gmail account, nor the accounts of my wife or friends.
If you need to change passwords you can use /dev/urandom to generate new ones.
cat /dev/urandom| tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9-_!@#$%^&*()_+{}|:<>?='|fold -w 12| head -n 4| grep -i '[!@#$%^&*()_+{}|:<>?=]'
i6a*ri:gCHBn
&5RNiw*3iFdM
9T7dRlx^x|cx
Vylk:H64wasj
The first part generates passwords containing a through z (lower and upper), and most of the upper keys and characters.
The "fold -w 12" generates passwords that are 12 characters long. Adjust to suit your needs.
The "head -n 4" generates four passwords. Ditto.
If you only want letters and numbers then use
cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 12| head -n 4
The "/dev/urandom" generates pseudo random passwords very quickly. "random" generates more random passwords but depends more on the entropy pool. So, a 12 character password using "/dev/random" may take an hour to generate, depending on the size of your entropy pool, the amount of RAM and your CPU speed.
Including more than just letters and numbers increases significantly the size of the pool of characters which must be tested and would make dictionary attacks essentially impossible.
If you want to check the activity of your gmail account you can open it to any gmail page and look at the side or bottom for
Last account activity: 1 hour ago
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