Avira Identity Safeguard Allows Ios And Android Users To Check If Email Address Was Impacted By Gmail Breach – Yahoo Finance

On Wednesday, reports of a massive Gmail password breach came to light. Up to 5 million stolen Gmail accounts and passwords were published on a Russian forum. After further analysis, as many harga blackberry as 5 million Gmail addressees as well as 5 million passwords were published. However, it is an important distinction that many of the passwords do not match the Gmail accounts with which they are associated. Google announced that only 1 to 2 % of the passwords match and that it has secured those. It has also stated that its systems were not breached in any way. Vinod Varma, head of engineering, R&D at Avira, said, It could be that passwords stolen from previous security breaches such as Adobe or LinkedIn happened to be the same ones that people used for Gmail and the hacker put together different data sets to come up with this list. All 5 million breached Gmail accounts have now been added to Avira’s Identity Safeguard database for the public to check their individual email accounts. To check whether your Gmail address is one of those listed on the Russian website, users can use the free Identity Safeguard tool in Avira’s iOS and Android mobile apps . Links To download Avira Antivirus Security for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.avira.android To download Avira Mobile Security for iOS devices: https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/avira-mobile-security/id692893556?mt=8 Follow Aviras Blog: http://blog.avira.com/en Find community, support and tips on social media: https://www.facebook.com/avira and https://twitter.com/avira About Avira Aviras founding principle is to build the best security technologies in the world so that customers can use the Internet without fear. In pursuit of this mission, Avira today offers a full suite of completelyfreesecurity applications for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android.
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