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G-Archiver Steals Passwords

Monday, March 10, 2008

If you have ever used G-Archiver to back up your GMail, immediately change your GMail password and uninstall G-Archiver.

G-Archiver e-mails your GMail username and password to the program’s author. The program’s source code contains the author’s GMail login credentials — an abnormal ocurrance that led a curious reader of Coding Horror to discover the dark side of G-Archiver.

Coding Horror reader Dustin Brooks took a peak at the author’s GMail account, and discovered that John Terry, creator of G-Archiver, is in possession of the usernames and passwords of thousands of people who have used G-Archiver.

Link via Daring Fireball.

File under: News, Security

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