You may have seen warnings that Google is telling all of its users to change their Gmail passwords due to a breach. That’s only partly true. Google is telling users to change their passwords, but not because of a breach that exposed them. In fact, Google’s real advice is to stop using your password altogether. Here’s what I mean.

Google has debunked recent reports that it was alerting its billions of Gmail users to a security breach and urging them to reset their passwords.