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Re:Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered... by dmw_ng on Friday November 22, 2019 @02:53PM (#21609381)
I signed up for a disposable Gmail account using my real name at one point, and accepted the randomly suggested address it offered. Gmail loaded with someone else's obviously in use mailbox

IIRC I logged out again and back in, same thing, my credentials worked. Went back to it a few days later and the password no longer worked

Re:Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered... by wizzwizz4 on Friday November 22, 2019 @03:42PM (#21609851)
Hash collisions most likely.
Re:Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered... by ta999999171 on Friday November 22, 2019 @07:09PM (#21611431)
Have heard this so many times about Gmail...

How have they not resolved this?

Re:Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered... by joncrane on Friday November 22, 2019 @10:50PM (#21612333)
I think it's like EC2 instance IDs. When they first came up with it, they never thought there would be literally billions of unique email addresses/EC2 instances eventually.