By Davey Winder
Publication Date: 2025-12-07 14:26:00
This devastating Gmail attack locks users out of their accounts with no comeback.
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Updated December 7 with more information regarding managing a Google Account with Family Link, the parental safety feature that threat actors are abusing to lock hacked Gmail users out, seemingly with no fix available from Google to recover their accounts.
I write a lot about Google security, and that which involves the most popular free email platform on the planet, with 2 billion active users, Gmail, in particular. Sure, much of this will focus on the latest vulnerability alerts, and threat campaigns, as well as the occasional compromised Gmail passwords warning. I will always include advice as to how to mitigate the risk of any attack, much of which comes from Google itself. When I hear from readers that they are being locked out of their Gmail account by hackers and are unable to get back in, no matter what, that’s a concern. When Google informs me that it…