Google Data Theft News: There are 700 million mobile users in the world. An e-mail address is linked to the Atlist in almost all smartphone users. In this way, e-mail users will be the same as smartphone users. But in the definition of active users, Google's active users have more than 350 million. Of these, the data of 250 million active users has been stolen. This is the biggest data theft in terms of Google users. Google also accepted theft of data. However, Google did not announce a certain figure.
A group of hackers named Shiny Hunters stole Google's 250 million users. There are disagreements about when the incident happened, but most cyber experts say that Google employees 'computers were accessed from a trick in late June-July and in the meantime Google's users' data was broken.
The entire incident was exposed after Google's millions of users were selling data on the Shiny Hunters Group on the Dark Web. Cyber Security Experts around the world were awakened. Government and private cyber security agencies have also recommended a password change to Google users immediately. The data that has been stolen also includes information that can be called very sensitive. As such, most users now share the contact number in Google. Millions of users' contact numbers have been stolen. It also means that the contact numbers of other billions of users have actually been leaked through 250 million users.
In addition, data of Google notes, G-mail, Name, Business Files, Company Names, etc. has been stolen. Google has acknowledged this data theft, but Google made it clear that not one users' password was stolen. Cyber Security Experts say that this data placed on the Dark Web will give scammers more. There is a risk of financial fraud on millions of users in the coming months. Scammers calls will also increase. The warning has been given to be cautious even if there is a voice message or text message on behalf of Google. Because the data of Google employees is hacked, such messages can come up with the name of Google and may be a new way of cheating. Google has also recommended a multi -factor authentication to users.
Users are harassed as scammers make an average of three phones daily
As online economic transactions have grown around the world, the raft of online thieves has also exploded. The data of one of the world's users is nowhere in the world. The data of as many users uses a device is stored by someone. When data is stolen, the risk of fraud is at the risk of users. Hackers sells that data on the dark web at a very nominal price. Scammers are buying data from there and calling ordinary users. These scammers call users in the name of giving credit cards, giving a lottery to the amount or any other temptation. The local circle survey found that the average Indian users receive three spam calls daily. Users have been harassed by such calls.
