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The Nigerian government has said it has begun an investigation into leaked passwords affecting 183 million Google Mail users. A senior official at the
A massive leak has exposed more than 183 million email passwords, including tens of millions linked to Gmail accounts, in what cybersecurity analysts are calling one of the biggest credential dumps ever uncovered.
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Hackers gathered a huge haul: 183 million sets of email addresses + passwords, including tens of millions tied to Gmail accounts.
Earlier this week, reports came out claiming that 183 million Gmail passwords were exposed in a data leak. Google has since come out to dispute this claim (via its X account ), attributing "inaccurate reports" to "stemming from a misunderstanding of infostealer databases."