US EditionMassive Data Breach: Google Warns 2.5 Billion Gmail Users
Google advises 2.5 billion Gmail users to enhance security by updating passwords and enabling two-factor authentication to counteract increasing phishing and social engineering attacks.
- On August 20, 2025, due to an ongoing investigation, Salesloft and Salesforce disabled all Drift token permissions and took down the related application as a precaution.
- This action followed a series of attacks from August 8 to 18 by threat actors tied to ShinyHunters who exploited compromised OAuth tokens to access Salesforce data.
- The actors extracted extensive datasets from several Salesforce environments and examined the information for sensitive secrets to apply additional leverage against victims, including those impacted by UNC6040 breaches.
- In a June blog post, Google indicated that threat actors associated with the ShinyHunters name could be planning to intensify their extortion efforts by creating a website to publicly release stolen data.
- Google has advised its approximately 2.5 billion Gmail account holders to change their passwords, remain alert to phishing attempts, and enable stronger security features to help protect against credential theft.
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The technology company recognized a historical security incident that affects Gmail and Google Cloud accounts around the world. Specialists warn about a spike in digital scams and phishing.
Google Issues Emergency Warning Over Gmail Data Breach — Is Changing Your Password Enough?
Google has revealed a massive data breach affecting roughly 2.5 billion Gmail and Google Cloud users worldwide. The breach originated through Salesforce, a cloud software provider used by Google, and allowed hackers to access extensive account data. Google's security team has warned users about the scale of the breach and urged immediate action. However, simply changing passwords may not fully protect accounts from the hackers behind this attack…
Regularly changing passwords for online accounts is a good practice, but still far too few internet users do. Google has just warned 2.5 billion Gmail users, encouraging them to urgently change their passwords. Google warns Gmail users: change your passwords. According to statistics cited by the Mountain View-based company, phishing attacks account for 37 percent of successful attacks conducted by cybercriminals. Recently, scammers have been inc…
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