You can check whether your Gmail password has been compromised using Google’s Password Checkup or third-party breach scanners ...

Hundreds of millions of email logins are now circulating on criminal forums, and security researchers say a significant slice of them belong to Gmail users. If you rely on Google’s inbox for banking ...

The security of your Gmail email, and by extension the entire Google account attached to it, is very important. It's imperative you don't make it easy for hackers to get in and extract data that can ...

On desktop, visit mail.google.com and sign in with your Gmail account. Scroll down and click on the Details under the last account activity. If you don’t see this ...

Google recently rolled out passkeys for Gmail, which lets you log in using a smartphone or computer without typing in the actual password. It's a great way to improve Gmail security, but passkeys ...

Google has just released the latest iteration of its two-factor authentication Titan security key and has committed to giving away 100,000 of them to users at the highest risk from hackers. For ...

A massive dataset containing 183 million stolen passwords resurfaced in October 2025, including Gmail credentials. Security ...

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Update, Dec. 16, 2024: This story, originally published Dec. 14 now includes additional advice on how to securely recover a forgotten username and password to an inactive Gmail account to prevent ...