{"id":1035696,"date":"2026-09-16T08:01:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035696"},"modified":"2026-09-16T08:11:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:41:02","slug":"google-faces-police-questioning-over-500000-fake-gmail-accounts-used-for-bomb-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/16\/google-faces-police-questioning-over-500000-fake-gmail-accounts-used-for-bomb-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Google faces police questioning over 500,000 fake Gmail accounts used for bomb threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Indian police will question Google over \u200ba 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. <\/p>\n<p>India is one \u200cof Google&#8217;s \u2060largest markets \u2060by users, where the U.S. tech giant is already under scrutiny after authorities found a pattern of criminals misusing \u200bits web development platform, Firebase, for financial scams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Indian police will question Google over \u200ba 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 \u200cof Google&#8217;s \u2060largest markets \u2060by users, where the U.S. tech giant is already under scrutiny after authorities found a pattern of criminals misusing \u200bits web development platform, Firebase, for financial scams.<\/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-1035696","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\/1035696","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=1035696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035700,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035696\/revisions\/1035700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}