#email security

Several inaccurate claims surfaced recently that incorrectly stated that we issued a broad warning to all Gmail users about a major Gmail security issue. Like the recently reported breach, compromised email addresses and passwords that are possibly used for work, social media accounts, and financial services, are left open to be used by cybercriminals. A data breach, by definition, "is a security incident in which sensitive, protected or confidential data is copied, transmitted, viewed, stolen or used by an individual unauthorized to do so." Data like your email addresses and passwords should not be exposed or released to the public or to any entity that can't be trusted. One big example is the recent data breach that exposes over 772 million email addresses and over 21 million passwords. You might be thinking, "I'm just using my email address to keep in touch with people and send files." But remember that you're also probably using it for other services like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Netflix, Spotify, Lazada, Shopee, Dropbox, Amazon, Steam, even bank accounts. If you're using a single email address and password for all these accounts and happened to get exposed, then the attacker can simply change your password (assuming you don't have 2FA activated), lock you out, access all your data, and use it for other malicious activities. Read more in our articles including "Google debunks Gmail database hack reports" and "What to do if your accounts have been compromised".