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Change your Google password now, 16B login records were recently exposed (androidpolice.com)
9 points by mikece 4 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


I’m seeing a lot of people on Twitter saying this today. Is this real? Surely Google is not storing passwords in plaintext?


of course not

> Most of the exposed datasets are a compilation of information from stealer malware, credential-stuffing sets, and repackaged leaks

it's from malware that is installed on users' machines, stealing passwords as they are being typed/submitted




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