Google Says Reports Of A Major Gmail Security Issue Are 'entirely False'

Google is officially debunking a bid of reports that claimed Gmail has been deed pinch a "major" information rumor successful caller days. "We want to reassure our users that Gmail’s protections are beardown and effective," nan institution said successful a somewhat different statement. "Several inaccurate claims surfaced precocious that incorrectly stated that we issued a wide informing to each Gmail users astir a awesome Gmail information issue. This is wholly false."

Google doesn't item nan erroneous claims successful its post. But, arsenic Forbes points out, it seems to beryllium referring to respective caller reports that stated nan institution issued an "emergency warning" to each of its 2.5 cardinal users successful consequence to a phishing onslaught that targeted a Salesforce lawsuit utilized by nan company. That incident, however, was first reported by Google successful early June, and nan institution said successful an August 8 update that it had vanished notifying everyone affected.

It's not clear why that study resurfaced now aliases really it was misconstrued into a expected informing impacting each Gmail users, but Google is now trying to group nan grounds straight. "While it’s ever nan lawsuit that phishers are looking for ways to infiltrate inboxes, our protections proceed to artifact much than 99.9% of phishing and malware attempts from reaching users," nan institution said. "It’s important that speech successful this abstraction is meticulous and factual."

Google besides notes that it encourages each users to group up "a unafraid password alternative," specified arsenic a passkey for maximum protection.