Google hit by widespread phishing attack

Published May 3, 2017 10:12pm ET



Google was hit by a phishing scam on Wednesday, prompting the company to warn its roughly 1 billion Gmail users to watch out for an email asking them to open a file from Google Docs.

“We are investigating a phishing email that appears as Google Docs. We encourage you to not click through, & report as phishing within Gmail,” the company said in a tweet at 4:15 p.m.

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