Google has issued a global security alert advising its 2.5 billion Gmail users to update their passwords following a data breach involving one of its Salesforce databases.

Though consumer Gmail and Cloud accounts were not directly compromised, the incident has triggered an aggressive wave of phishing and impersonation attacks targeting users across the platform.

Newsweek contacted Google for more information via email outside of normal working hours.

Why It Matters

While the exposed database did not contain passwords or sensitive consumer data, the stolen business contact details have been used in a wave of phishing campaigns that mimic legitimate communications from Google. According to Google's threat research team, phishing and "vishing"—voice phishing via phone calls—now acco

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