Today, almost five million email addresses and passwords were posted on a Russian forum. My personal email account was one of the ones compromised. If you have GMail or a major email account you'll want to read on.

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Reports are claiming that 60 percent of the passwords are valid. However, some of them are outdated.

On this message board was a file containing exactly 4,930,000 emails and passwords.

There's a legit website that will let you know if you're email has been compromised or not. I checked my personal email and I was indeed hacked. This website is safe and has been vetted. All they ask for is your email address. Thankfully, I used it.

 

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