Actually this one seems to be true. This leak has been reported by several news outlets in the past several days.
Todd On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 10:53 AM, The Believer <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote: > No, emails like this are never legit, never. > > From The Believer. . . > . . . what if it were true? > ancient.ali...@icloud.com > > On 9/11/2014 11:29 PM, Eleanor Roberts wrote: > >> Hi Andrew >> >> I had exactly the same e-mail. I haven't tried the website, but share >> your concerns completely. Could anyone else who is more in the know than >> me please confirm if this was legit or not?? As with Andrew, I too am >> worried that I may have revealed my address to a hacker. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Eleanor >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On 12 Sep 2014, at 06:25, Andrew Lamanche <ioani...@me.com> wrote: >>> >>> Listers, >>> >>> I think it was yesterday or the day before that I found among the >>> messages from the list an e-mail containing a warning of a possible leak of >>> e-mail addresses from gmail. The messaged contained instructions on how to >>> check whether one's e-mail was possibly compromised or not. The website to >>> go to was is leaked.com. >>> >>> As I saw no reference to this by any other member of the group, I now >>> wonder whether it was spam. Has anyone else received this warning? Is the >>> website isleaked.com genuine? I connected to it to check my e-mail >>> address. It opened in Russian and from there there was a link to the US >>> version and Spanish version and possibly others as well. I now worry that >>> the whole thing was spam and I may have revealed my address to a hacker. >>> >>> I'd be very grateful to hear whether anyone else has been notified by >>> this e-mail of a possible theft of millions of gmail addresses. >>> >>> Thank you. >>> >>> Andrew >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
