This is the most important step and should come before any other steps that you can undertake. If your email is on the list, change your Gmail password immediately. To confirm that the situation is dire, it will display the first two characters of the password as well which account owners can use to verify the claim. The service will notify you if the email that you have entered has been leaked or not. Here you need to enter your Google email address first to check it against the service's database. Use the Mega download instead to verify if your email is on that list. Update: removed the direct link to the site. If you don't want to download the packed 36 Megabyte file to find out, you can also use third-party services such as Is Leaked on the Internet. While you will only find email addresses listed in the 100 Megabyte text document, it is enough to verify if your own Gmail email address is affected by the leak.ĭownloading the email address and searching for your own email is probably the best option that you have to find out if you are affected.
It is for instance possible to download all leaked email addresses from the file hosting service Mega.
The database appears to include usernames, passwords and email addresses of users and while it has not been confirmed as legitimate yet by third parties it has been made available publicly on the Internet. Today's big news is the release of a database with more than 5 million Gmail email account user information.