Attention Gmai/Google+/Google Wallet Users

[Stickerbunny]

5 million accounts had their details published publicly online today by a Gmail hack. This means, your password and your login username may be out on the net for anyone and their brother to find. Change your passwords! 

[Bam]

Thank you!

[MoxieMeadows]

Thanks for the warning! I’ll definately be changing my passwords!

[LongEaredLions]

Thanks!

[Deleted User]

I heard it on the news this morning but they said it’s from old accounts??? and not to worry too much??? I think only my youngest son uses gmail so will let him know – he NEVER watches the news (but never misses an episode of the Family Guy) SIGH…..

Thanks Stickerbunny!

[Stickerbunny]

They THINK it may be old info, however, if you’ve never changed your passwords… well, old info is still new info.

[LBJ10]

I think I had a Google account. Like for Google Docs or something??? YEARS ago. I have no clue what my login or password even were. I never used it. I had it because of an internship, I believe. They wanted everything submitted to Google Docs. Is that the same thing as this?

[BrunosMama]

My phone is Google based. I had to create a Gmail account to access some apps on the phone. But I never use it. Or really any Google service except the search. I don’t even think I put my real info in for the email. Does this hack affect that stuff? Sorry, I avoid the news. I’ve got enough Yuck as it is. I keep up via my family.

[Deleted User]

I doubt my son has ever changed his password on anything??? How does he think I know his bank balance and spending habits??? Ha ha ha!.
I had a go at him once for getting a parking ticket (that I only knew about cause I saw it on his online bank statement when he PAID it), and I kept waiting for him to ask ‘how I knew???’ – he must have believed me when I told him I KNOW EVERYTHING! ha ha ha….. Dopey!

I will make sure I tell him tonight Stickerbunny when he finishes work!

[Stickerbunny]

lol AH, the all knowing and all seeing mom! Fear her!

Bruno – It isn’t going to give them access to your phone, unless logging into your gmail account from another phone loads info – which I doubt, since usually that info is stored on your sim card – but I am not an owner of a cell phone, so I am not sure what sort of backups they do now, it might save some contact info on a backup. If you signed up for Idrive, access to your google account would give them access to that, which would include photos and such (word of warning to cell phone users: some cell phones back up every file onto a cloud server by default, disable that if you don’t want the backup on the internet.. that is how the celebs photos were stolen, they didn’t know about the auto backup).

LBJ – Yes, same account, Google’s slogan is “One account. All of Google.” Your gmail, g+, google wallet, google docs, google phone, etc are all linked now. But, if you have nothing on there for them to steal and don’t even know the login yourself, probably not much for them to get if they got access to it.

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