Originally Posted by
aschuett
I work in IT for a living, and am very attentive to my passwords and keeping them random and secure. I use 1Password (similar to Last Pass) for password management, but still my Gmail account got hacked in a similar way. My password was just random characters, so no possibility for dictionary attacks.
So if a dictionary attack was not the mechanism, what was?
You're in IT and maybe can explain these things better. Would it mean that someone was intercepting traffic somewhere and watching your login credentials fly by? Or someone was able to access your account info from a leak on Google's end?