Urgent warning to Gmail users as 183 MILLION passwords are stolen in data breach - here's how to check if your account is affected

Just change your password, it is probably old and most likely in someone's databank by now...

It’s the email provider of choice for around 2 billion people worldwide.

But Gmail has been involved in a huge data breach affecting more than 183 million user accounts

To better protect yourself, you should change your password a few times a year by using a password manager like Proton Pass or pCloud Pass

Advantages…

• You don’t have to remember any of your passwords save the master password to your password manager app

• Most offer an autofill option to each registered website’s login page - just one click to approve the login

• For many sites you visit, you can change your password from outside the app

• Many offer a monitoring service to alert you to password breeches with the registered web sites you use

• Other confidential information can be stored on the password manager app

We also recommend NOT using Gmail as they read every email you send (which truncates any long emails your receive) - and store that data for their own use.

We highly recommend Proton Mail and have been using them for more than a decade) - TRUE end-to-end encryption, no decryption when sending your emails then recryption at the receiving end (which is how many free services function).

There is no such thing as a free service - they can get more revenue from selling your data to the highest bidder than having paid subscriptions.