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Gmail users issued urgent warning with 1,800,000,000 at risk from 'sophisticated' password hack
2025-05-07
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Cyber criminals are targeting Gmail users’ passwords with a sneaky email scam (Picture: Getty)
All Gmail users have been warned to take steps to secure their accounts after widespread hacking attempts.
Cyber criminals are targeting Gmail users with phishing emails.
The scam emails appear to come from a legitimate Google account service,asking users to follow a link to take action.
However,clicking on the link could lock you out of your account.
Gmail users should ensure they have set up a recovery phone number or alternative email address to answer security questions and verify their identity,Google said.
More than 20% of the world’s population has a Gmail account (Picture: SOPA Images/Getty)
The warning comes after a ‘sophisticated’ attack was spotted by developer Nick Johnson,who raised the alarm by posting what the phishing email sent to him looked like.
It appeared to come from accounts.google.com email,saying Google has been legally asked to ‘produce a copy of your Google Account content’ and asking him to follow a link posing as a Google support site.
When the expert followed links taking him to websites that were ‘exact duplicates’ of legitimate Google pages,he was asked to sign in to his Google account.
The phishing email claiming to be from Google account support (Picture: X/@nickdjohnson)
He explained: ‘From there,presumably,they harvest your login credentials and use them to compromise your account; I haven’t gone further to check.’
Worryingly,Gmail’s security system didn’t spot the phishing email,meaning users will have to be even more vigilant.