Q: What should I be doing as a Google user after the data breach?

A: You’ve likely seen headlines warning that “all Gmail users” must change passwords after a big “Google data breach,” but that’s not actually what happened. Google wasn’t directly compromised, and your personal Gmail account wasn’t exposed.

The issue started with a tool that connects to Google’s Salesforce server. That tool was abused in a way that let criminals grab Gmail-related data that was actually publicly available information.

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