It seems that a user at password-hacking forum Inside Pro published a 500MB file earlier this month that was said to hold nearly 11 million passwords which were harvested from users over at the popular German gaming site Gamigo – at least that is what Forbes reports. The “offending” file that carries those passwords have since been removed, but Forbes believes that the damage has already been done as said file was hanging around cyberspace for weeks prior to being removed.

Steve Thomas, founder of data breach warning service PwnedList, mentioned to Forbes that the published passwords could very well make history as it is the “largest leak I’ve ever actually seen,” but at his final count, he managed to tally “just” 8.2 million unique email addresses and passwords – which is a good 3 million or so short of the 11 million as claimed by the original leaker. Hopefully nothing bad comes out of this in the long run – were you affected by Gamigo’s password leak, and have you already changed your password?

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