Google Says Claims of Mass Gmail Security Breach Are “Entirely False”

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Google has debunked recent reports that it was alerting its billions of Gmail users to a security breach and urging them to reset their passwords.

“We want to reassure our users that Gmail’s protections are strong and effective,” the Alphabet-owned company wrote in a statement.

“Several inaccurate claims surfaced recently that incorrectly stated that we issued a broad warning to all Gmail users about a major Gmail security issue. This is entirely false.”

How the Gmail security story began

The story starts back in June, when Google reported that a hacking group called UNC6040 was using voice phishing campaigns to trick people into granting access to one of its internal Salesforce instances.

Some ...