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Weird, it gives me a very old password.

Though back when I had that password my account was hacked. I'd wager this is just Gmail address+password combos collected from other leaks (read: not from Google). Really this just seems to be an attempt at sensationalizing.



Me too. It gives the first two letters of a pw that I have used in the past but as far as I'm aware, not on that account. This raises all kinds of questions...

Edit: it does the same on a much older account that I rarely use, too. Not the current password but the first two letters of what is likely a much older pw.


I can also verify this. One of my gmail accounts was in there, incidentally the "trash account" I use when I sign up for various services online.

And the password was one of my lowest security "trash passwords" I use with this e-mail as login sometimes if it's a service I wouldn't trust or don't care if it's compromised.

So I wouldn't worry about this. Someone had their site hacked most likely and these are logins to the site, not from Google.




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