Do you all remeber the 9th day of September 2014, when 5 million Google’s Gmail accounts have got hacked by some really intelligent hackers? Well, be it the logins for the right say. Also, it is said to be one of the biggest hacks in the recent times. Aren’t you among the ones who have got a mail regarding the immediate password change for your Gmail account? Well, some 2.1% of Gmail users have received the alert messages, while rest of the account holders have been in the comfort zone.
Today, we are here to bring you out some of the facts you would have never heard before about Gmail password leak. The below infographic is about how it all happened.
If you look at the top 10 passwords that are commonly used for a Gmail account are, 12345, 123456789, password, iloveyou and a few easy guessable passwords that are so very easy to crack.
When a Gmail account is believed to have some serious stock of information, one needs to be well aware of the security threats that may cause the damage later on. The password that was set needs to be very strong and should be predictable.
Also, whenever a password is created, you will be shown a metrics where the strength of your password is shown. The worst thing you can do to your account is to set a weak password and make a fuss about getting hacked in the later stage. This kind of act should be seriously stopped and one has to foucs much on how to improve the security of their account.
The main problem with setting up passwords is that, we are more like used to setup passwords that are easy to recollect. We never habituated ourselves to use complex passwords for the websites or accounts that have highly confidential information. And that is one of the reasons why accounts get easily hacked.
Also, to be safe online, you should be maintaining different passwords for different accounts. There are people who setup same passwords for all of their accounts. When something of this sort happens, not only one of your accounts get hacked but it goes for all.
Try using password generator. Tougher the password is, safer your become.
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