MOUNTAIN VIEW (CBS SF) — Nearly five million Google Gmail usernames and passwords have been posted to a Russian website, according to a number of published reports. Russian news outlets reported a database containing 4.93 million names and passwords were uploaded Tuesday to a Russian bitcoin forum, which has reportedly purged the passwords while the email addresses remained. The hack was first reported by Russian website CNews . In a statement, Google ( GOOG ) said the list was likely phished from malware-infected computers and contained older, or outdated login information. Posts on the Russian-language forum asserted that more than 60 percent of the identities were still in use and could be accessed immediately, according to Russian media outlet RIA Novosti . “The security of our users’ information is a top priority for us,” a Google representative said in a statement. “We have no evidence that our systems have been compromised, but whenever we become awa...
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