Google issued an urgent warning this week that many of you should be aware of.

Specifically, any of you who use their Gmail platform .

The Tab reports how Google’s Threat Intelligence Group confirmed this month that hackers from a group known as ShinyHunters — which is a reference to Pokémon “shiny” types — have successfully been getting into users accounts for quite some time.

According to a post published to Google’s blog , the company became a aware of ShinyHunters’s activities in June. One member of the group was able to trick a Google employee into revealing the login details for a system known as Salesforce; thus, ShinyHunters was able to get into business files.

“In addition, we believe threat actors using the ‘ShinyHunters’ brand may be preparing to escalate their extor

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