Google confirmed that miscreants created a fraudulent account in its Law Enforcement Request System (LERS) portal, which police and other government agencies use to ask for data about Google users.

"We have identified that a fraudulent account was created in our system for law enforcement requests and have disabled the account," a Google spokesperson told The Register on Tuesday. "No requests were made with this fraudulent account, and no data was accessed."

Google's admission follows BreachForums posts by Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters - this is the gang allegedly made up of members from three other notorious cybercrime crews , Scattered Spider, ShinyHunters, and Lapsus$. Shortly after announcing their retirement from the ransomware biz, they indicated via screenshots that they had access to

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