Just a for instance, it wouldn't take too much to embed your gmail
address in the link so that clicking on it tells them you read their
spam and are willing to click on strange links. That puts you on the A
list they sell to other spammers. It's also possible the site will
'help' you fix your password by asking for your current credentials,
which they then sell to the highest bidder.
CB
On 9/12/14, 1:06 PM, The Believer wrote:
There is all sorts of hacking going on. But it makes absolutely no
sense at all to go onto a strange web site and ewpose oneself to
further hacking. Common sense dictates that one can simply change
passwords by logging into legitimate web sites, in this case the Gmall
site.
Furthermore, hackers take every advantage of news stories like this to
tap into yet more unsuspecting accounts.
From The Believer. . .
. . . what if it were true?
ancient.ali...@icloud.com
On 9/12/2014 9:24 AM, Todd W wrote:
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
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