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The Economic Times
The Economic Times

Google faces police questioning over 500,000 fake Gmail accounts used for bomb threats

New Delhi: 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.

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