Google Investigates Hijacked Email Accounts

Author: Donald Sears

April 21, 2010 1:29 pm

Google is investigating a growing number of reports that hackers are breaking into legitimate Gmail accounts and then using them to send spam messages. The problem started about a week ago but seems to have escalated over the past few days. Read the full article. [IDG News Service]

Google is investigating a growing number of reports that hackers are breaking into legitimate Gmail accounts and then using them to send spam messages. The problem started about a week ago but seems to have escalated over the past few days. Read the full article. [IDG News Service]

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