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		heliumcraft on Sept 10, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 5M Gmail passwords leaked to Russian Bitcoin forum wouldn't the passwords be hashed? or are these passwords captured through other means like trojans?

UberB on Sept 10, 2014 [–]

According to the article, they never managed to hack into Google's database. This just looks like a large accumulation of user info from phishing.

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