Police to Question Google Over 5 Lakh 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 media 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.

Police in ?the western state of Gujarat broke up an email network this week that ?they described as sending "inter-state" bomb threats and arrested two individuals, uncovering 513,847 Gmail IDs and ?passwords being used since 2022.