April 20, IDG News Service – (International) Drug-dealing spammers hit Gmail accounts. Google is investigating a growing number of reports that hackers are breaking into legitimate G-mail accounts and then using them to send spam messages peddling Canadian pharmaceutical websites that promised to send cheap drugs to U.S. customers. The problem started about a week ago but seems to have escalated recently. “The G-mail team takes security very seriously and is investigating the reports we’ve seen in our user forums over the past few days,” Google said April 20 in an e-mailed statement. “We encourage users who suspect their accounts have been compromised to immediately change their passwords and to follow the advice at the following page: Gmail accounts are often compromised after phishing attempts or via malicious programs, which can seek out and log online credentials from a hacked computer. It is note that hackers appear to be sending spam via G-mail’s mobile interface - which gives mobile-phone users a way to check their G-mail accounts. The G-mail users wondered if there may be a bug in the mobile interface that is allowing criminals to send the spam.