If I’ve learned anything about corpos denying something that makes them looks bad, its that it has absolutely happened and the level of severity is based inversely on the level of denial.
I mean, if you read the details, it’s pretty clear that someone reported something in a way that made it sound like a massive gmail breach when it was something totally different.
That’s not to say that Google hasn’t been breached in some kind of catastrophic way and then covered it up, just that this particular “breach” wasn’t that.
i love the idea of the Google being breached, if you ask them they will sell you all the data.
No, they’ll sell you a group id which is used to target you.
Fair
“Facts don’t matter when they align with my world view.”
I stopped using gmail several years ago, I stopped using my gmail account because I did not want the google going through my emails to sell ads to me. In January I stopped paying for youtube premium, and started using ad blockers for youtube instead.
So that means the breach was really bad
Change your passwords everyone!
Delete your Google accounts too!
The confusion appears to have started after Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) creator Troy Hunt announced he had added a large dataset of 183 million credentials to the breach notification service. The data was shared with Hunt by Synthient, a threat intelligence platform that collects and analyzes information from infostealer malware logs. As Hunt explained in a blog post, the collection reflects years of infostealer activity rather than a single new compromise – and certainly not a targeted attack on Gmail.
Short version, 183 million computers have malware on them, and many people logged into their gmail accounts on infected computers.
Not sure I blame Google for this one, but you should probably delete any Google accounts just to be safe (and also stop opening .exe files you get from sketchy websites).
