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by wslh 301 days ago
Isn't this huge from Google's security perspective? I don't recall any previous successful attack on its core infrastructure.

A quick search/prompt shows:

- Operation Aurora: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora>

- 2010s global surveillance disclosures: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010s_global_surveillance_disc...>
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lern_too_spel 301 days ago
The headline looks incorrect. This looks like a blogspam of a blogspam of the original Salesforce database hack reported a while ago, where Google Cloud customers had their company name and contact information stolen. This information is useful for phishing attacks on those Google Cloud customers. Free Gmail users wouldn't be in that database.
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decimalenough 301 days ago
The hack was on a Salesforce instance owned and operated by Salesforce but used by Google, not Google core infra.
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