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Google says Gmail security is ‘strong and effective’ following mass data breach rumors

Google issued a brief statement on its blog this week, promoting the security of Gmail after online claims of mass warnings sent to end users.

The reason behind this post seems to spawn from growing noise on both social media and in various press outlets over whether a group called ShinyHunters had gained access to general data on Gmail users at large. Google did update its Threat Intelligence blog post addressing the SalesForce breach early in August to note it had sent alerts to affected accounts, but it doesn’t appear that all 2.5 billion active users received these notifications. Advertisement - scroll for more contentIt appears to be unrelated to any recent phishing attempts, though claims on Reddit are mentioned repeated efforts utilizing both mailer-daemon inbox alerts and calls from Californian area code 650 pretending to be with Google.

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