[sahirh]

The leaking via gmail has an issue:

In many cases when creating a new gmail account, you have to provide a phone number for an automatic text verification code.

[_k]

True. The article has so many mistakes in it, it's almost as if it's written by the government !! We need a new article.

[tripzilch]

yeah, I was going to say this as well. sometimes they ask for a phone number, and sometimes they don't.

I wonder what triggers it, maybe if a lot of different Google Accounts log in from that single IP, it assumes it's some open coffeeshop wifi or similar?