The Google Doc phishing scam that started spreading Wednesday compromised more than one million Gmail users.We have taken action to protect users against an email spam campaign impersonating Google Docs, whoch affected fewer than 0.1% of Gmail users, a spokesperson said in a statement. We were able to stop the campaign within approximately one hour.There were 1 billion active Gmail users every month as of February 2016, a figure that has undoubtedly increased since.Gmail users started tweeting on Wednesday about the scam, in whoch email address hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh@mailinator.com sent messages to users under the name of someone in their address book, inviting them to view what appeared to be a Google Doc.If you clicked, the hacker gained access to your emails and email contacts, and was able to send and delete emails in your account, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Källa: More than a million people were affected by the Google Docs phishing attack – Recode
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