In TrendsCrude Oil PricesGanesh Chaturthi 2026NSE IPOBRICS SummitIndian police to query Google over 500,000 fake Gmail IDs linked to bomb hoaxIndia is one of Google’s largest markets by users, where the U.S. tech giant is already under scrutiny after authorities found a pattern of criminals misusing its web development platform, Firebase, for financial scams.By Reuters September 15, 2026, 3:28:07 PM IST (Published)Indian police will question Google over a lack of safeguards after smashing a criminal network that set up and managed more than 500,000 fake Gmail accounts to send hoax bomb threats to government offices, a police official told Reuters on Tuesday.India is one of Google’s largest markets by users, where the U.S. tech giant is already under scrutiny after authorities found a pattern of criminals misusing its web development platform, Firebase, for financial scams.Police in the western state of Gujarat broke up an email network this week that they described as sending ”inter-state” bomb threats and arrested two individuals, uncovering 513,847 Gmail IDs and passwords being used since 2022.Reuters is the first to report that Google itself figures in the investigation. The scale of fake Gmail accounts in use is unprecedented, Vivek Bheda, a senior cybercrime official of the…
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