Data breaches happen constantly, and it's important to know whether your Gmail password was exposed. Several tools can help you check your account's safety.

Hundreds of millions of email logins are now circulating on criminal forums, and security researchers say a significant slice of them belong to Gmail users. If you rely on Google’s inbox for banking ...

It’s time to change your Gmail password, with Google confirming that millions of user credentials were included in a massive data leak. The state of cybersecurity in 2025 is pretty bleak. Data ...

Gmail users around the world are being urged to take immediate action after a massive data breach exposed more than 183 million email passwords, according to cybersecurity experts who revealed the ...

Changing your Gmail password is incredibly important for your online security. If you're anything like the average user, your Gmail account is linked to dozens of other organizations and programs – ...

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You may have seen warnings that Google is telling all of its users to change their Gmail passwords due to a breach. That’s only partly true. Google is telling users ...

Google has warned Gmail users to update their passwords and strengthen their account security as password hackers have carried out a significant amount of “successful intrusions.” It is advising Gmail ...

Late last month, reports that Google had issued warnings to over 2 billion Gmail users began to circulate. Based on those reports, it looked like Google was sending urgent messages to users, spurring ...

“2.5 billion Gmail users should change passwords,” the headlines warn, saying Google has issued an emergency alert to all its users. Not so fast, however. While Google and Gmail are often targeted by ...

*Google has clarified that there has been no direct Gmail password breach affecting its 2.5 billion users. Instead, the concern stems from a Salesforce data breach earlier in 2025, carried out by the ...