Gujarat police to query Google over 500,000 fake Gmail IDs linked to bomb hoax

Police will question Google over a ‌lack of safeguards after smashing a criminal network that set ​up and managed more than 500,000 fake Gmail accounts ⁠to send hoax bomb threats to government offices, a police official told Reuters on Tuesday (September 15, 2026).

India is one of Google’s largest markets by users, where the U.S. ‌tech giant is already under scrutiny after authorities found a pattern of criminals misusing its web development platform, Firebase, for ‌financial scams.

Gujarat police broke ‌up ⁠an email network this week that they described as sending “inter-state” bomb ⁠threats and arrested two individuals, uncovering 513,847 Gmail IDs and passwords being used since 2022.