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Hackers have breached a major Google database, putting the accounts of 2.5 billion Gmail users at risk of being hijacked by scammers.  The hacking group known as ShinyHunters broke into a Google database managed through Salesforce’s cloud platform by tricking a Google employee into sharing login credentials in June. They stole troves of business files, containing company names and customer …

Within the titles of the calendar invites, the researchers added their crafty malicious prompts. (Google’s Wen contends that the researchers changed default settings on who can add calendar invites to someone’s calendar; however, the researchers say they demonstrated some of the 14 attacks with the prompts in an email subject or document title as well). “All the techniques are just …