US EditionGoogle’s Gmail Upgrade—Millions Of Accounts Now At Risk
- On Jan. 26, Google announced Gmail will stop fetching third-party emails via POP starting January 2026 and will no longer support Gmailify as the platform recovers.
- Phone Arena suggested the move reflects AI's compute costs, as processing competitor mail made Gmailify expensive for Google to maintain.
- Inbox filters failed Saturday, causing misclassified messages, extra spam warnings, and delivery delays, with Google saying some misclassifications may persist during its investigation.
- Millions of legacy third‑party emails will now arrive unfiltered into Gmail inboxes, and Google recommends forwarding mail, but security observers warned attackers will likely exploit forwarding to Hotmail, Yahoo, or AOL.
- Reports show the unsecured database of 149 million account logins, including 48 million Gmail logins, was removed after researcher Jeremiah Fowler reported it; he said the data likely came from infostealers.
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A huge database of Gmail, banking, and other login details has been left open to the public online, and researchers say it was likely collected by infostealer malware.
The most frequently used passwords in Germany still consist of simple numbers, as the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) in Potsdam reported. The most popular password in 2025 was therefore "123456".
Passwords are our digital keys. However, many users leave their doors quite wide open on the Internet.
A researcher has discovered a database with user names and passwords unprotected on the Internet. What's behind it.
Millions of passwords are completely freely accessible, including by German users. Large online platforms and streaming services are particularly affected.
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