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1 million Gmail accounts victim of state-sponsored hacking

Google is improving its Gmail warning service to help protect the customers from state-sponsored hacking and surveillance activities. Google confirmed that one million Gmail accounts might have been targeted by nation-state hackers. The news is worrying, the company is observing a significant increase in the number of hacking attacks on user email accounts. Google announced […]

Man admits he stole nude celebrity pics from Apple and Gmail accounts

Phishing scheme gained illegal access to accounts storing 161 nude images. An Oregon man has admitted he tricked hundreds of people into divulging their Apple and Gmail passwords in a scheme that allowed him to steal nude images of more than a dozen victims, some of them celebrities. Andrew Helton, 29, of Portland, entered the plea […]