Urgent alert issued to anyone who uses Gmail after 183 million passwords leaked

Gmail users have been warned about a huge attack that appears to have left as many as 183 million email accounts insecure.

The data leaked online includes not only the email accounts themselves but the passwords believed to be associated with those logins.

The breach could allow hackers entry not only to email accounts but all of the other logins that depend on Gmail .

The breach occurred in April of this year but was recently noted by Have I Been Pwned, a website that tracks data breaches so that users can be alerted to them.

The data came from a much broader hack that was aggregated from across the internet, according to Troy Hunt, who runs the website.

Users are able to check whether their emails and passwords are part of the attack – or any other tracked data brea