Google faces police probe over 500,000 fake Gmail IDs linked to bomb hoax

Indian police will question Google over a lack of safeguards after smashing a criminal network that set up and managed more than 500,000 fake Gmail accounts to send hoax bomb threats to government offices, a police official told Reuters on Tuesday.

India is one of Google’s largest markets by users, where the U.S. tech giant is already under scrutiny after authorities found a pattern of criminals misusing its web development platform, Firebase, for financial scams.