Google says that Gmail security is “strong and effective” because it denies a major violation

The sky falls and Gmail would have been hacked in bits by unknown malicious festivals. Or is it? Reports circulated last week by saying that Gmail has been the subject of a major data violation, citing a series of warnings that Google has distributed and increasing phishing attack reports. Hysteria was short -lived, however. In a brief article on his official blog, Google says that Gmail safety is “strong and effective” and that the contrary relationships are wrong.

This story seems to have developed due to a random confluence of security events. Google experienced a Gmail data violation in June, but the attack was limited to the company’s Salesforce server. The pirate was able to access information accessible to the public such as corporate names and contact details, but no private information has been compromised.

In the following weeks, Google alerted Gmail users to increase phishing attacks in July and August. He did not offer a lot of details, but many thought that the tip of phishing was linked to the violation of the corporate server. Indeed, more people speak of hacking of attempts on social networks at the moment. This led to the assertion that the entire Gmail user base of 2.5 billion people was about to be hacked at any time, some reports advising everyone to change their passwords and activate two -factory authentication. Although it is generally good security advice, Google says that the truth is much less dramatic.