Google: Expert warns of potential Gmail 'sabotage'

The warning came from security expert Will Geddes. Speaking to talkRADIO on Monday he warned Gmail, which has more than 1.5 billion global users, may have been sabotaged by hackers. He claimed the “sky is the limit” for anyone if they were able to hack the service.

Mr Geddes said: “The sky is the limit in terms of what data they could have stolen.

“It could be to download servers from Gmail accounts, credentials to log in and the contents of those emails.

“It could be sabotage to take certain divisions or federal organisations out.

“It could be to try to extract information and then hold it to ransom. Take your pick, it is as big as it gets.”

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Host Mike Garahm asked the expert if he believed a cyberattack was behind the massive outage in Google services on Monday.

He said: “Whenever something like this happens, we all kind of go what is happening, are we being attacked?

“Are we under attack by some cyber hackers from Russia or China?”

The security expert replied: “That seems to be potentially the case. At the moment what we know is quite limited other than there have been sporadic outrages as people have been calling in.

“It appears that the attack was initially targeted against the US.

“There are a number of US federal departments and organisations that have also been attacked.

“So this is quite concerning, this could be the 9/11 of cyber hack attacks.

“It could be possibly a state actor behind it.”

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