It seems as if hacking has become quite the trend this season. After Apple, it’s the mighty Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) that was afflicted with a hack that cost them around 5 Million Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) accounts this Tuesday. Those accounts weren’t just connected to Gmail but other Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) services too and belong to English, Russian and Spanish users. Google Russia (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is said to be investigating the hack.

The information of the hack first came across in Russia and most of the accounts were displayed with their login information on a bitcoin platform. The catch is that 60 percent of the accounts are active on one or more Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) services hence the danger of misuse. Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) claims that it is in the process of probing into the matter officially alongside authorities to track down the hackers but up till now there has been no evidence of any breach.

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) last month suffered a hack too, although the scale was not so large but the sensitivity of the information was immense. The iCloud was hacked with the accounts of some well-known celebrities being broken into and extremely personal pictures flooded on the internet. The controversial leak made the headlines and after almost 3 weeks Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is still fighting the charges against it. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) came out with a face saving statement, where they emphasized that this attack was extremely targeted harping on about the complexity of username and passwords. They also urged the users to equip the two step verification module.

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOGL)  approach has been no different they claim that the breach didn’t happen in their data base but through online malwares and small hacking sites. Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) boasted about their security being unbreakable and if any Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) accounts would have been breached, they would have informed their users and prompted several actions immediately.

Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) should have taken necessary steps immediately when they came to know about the hack having taken place in Russia. Instead they came out with a feeble excuse that only 2 percent of the accounts displayed with passwords were genuine and that people should change their passwords immediately.

Incidents such as these only make one extremely skeptical of the internet security measures prevailing everywhere. Atop that, the laid back approach of these big corporations and statements which shirk blame worsens the situation. It’s a clear indication that hackers have gained enormous expertise in their field. If the security of Apple and Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) can be compromised, then no other company can claim impenetrable data security.

After such incidents, which are extremely huge in magnitude people ought to be more careful in what kind of data they share on the internet. Then there’s this eternal debate about internet security being just a mirage; that nothing is ever truly private on the internet. That’s one way to look at it as well however if the companies have become so dependent on Internet technology, then they should at least make sure periodically that their security is unbreakable.

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