You may have seen concerning reports this weekend about billions of Gmail accounts being at risk. That isn't the case, but there are steps to take to secure your account.

*Google has clarified that there has been no direct Gmail password breach affecting its 2.5 billion users. Instead, the concern stems from a Salesforce data breach earlier in 2025, carried out by the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about cybersecurity, surveillance and privacy. Updated on Nov. 3 with further reports into breached Gmail ...

IT’S FALSE. GOOGLE PUT OUT A STATEMENT ON ITS BLOG THAT CLAIMS OF A MAJOR GMAIL SECURITY WARNING ARE FALSE. IT SAYS, QUOTE, SEVERAL INACCURATE CLAIMS SURFACED RECENTLY THAT INCORRECTLY STATED THAT WE ...

Google responds to user warnings. For the second time in just a few weeks, Google has issued a critical update to publicly deny that a password data breach has impacted millions of Gmail users. The ...

Google is now denying the reports of a new Gmail security breach that compromised hundreds of millions of user accounts and their passwords, saying that the reports about this are false. It was ...