{"id":1030537,"date":"2026-08-22T09:34:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030537"},"modified":"2026-08-22T09:41:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:11:05","slug":"india-orders-google-to-take-down-hundreds-of-firebase-accounts-over-cyber-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/22\/india-orders-google-to-take-down-hundreds-of-firebase-accounts-over-cyber-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"India orders Google to take down hundreds of Firebase accounts over cyber fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has directed Google to shut down hundreds of accounts on its Firebase web development platform after finding a pattern of criminals misusing the service to impersonate major banks and defraud people, according to government notices and a source familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>Online scams have become one of India&#8217;s most pressing law enforcement challenges, with Indians losing nearly $2.4 billion in alleged cyber fraud in 2025, according to government data. For years, the government has gone after scammers by ordering their websites removed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has directed Google to shut down hundreds of accounts on its Firebase web development platform after finding a pattern of criminals misusing the service to impersonate major banks and defraud people, according to government notices and a source familiar with the matter. Online scams have become one of India&#8217;s most pressing law enforcement challenges, with Indians losing nearly $2.4 billion in alleged cyber fraud in 2025, according to government data. For years, the government has gone after scammers by ordering their websites removed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030538,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030537\/revisions\/1030538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}