GCP RESTRICTION -- [ I'm In Need Of Desperate Help :( ]

[Nicholas]

Hello Firebase Community,

I'm new to firebase, and I'm working on a school project(a flutter app - android app) using firebase as back-end, whilst learning alongside. Below is a message from Google stating: 

The system capabilities of Google Cloud Platform have been used for abusive activities that violate Google’s policies.

I have no idea what kind of violation I may have caused. I cant access my firebase project from the console and the flutter app. If this is common or someone here has faced a similar situation, I plead for guidance on rectifying this. I have already sent an appeal to Google and its been 2 days now. My project deadline is just around the corner. 

[Adam Geisen]

I had a similar issue happen at the beginning of October. I posted a request for help here but received no responses. I was still able to access my project from the console, but they said they found that a file that had been uploaded to storage was being used for phishing. Anytime someone opened a file from my storage, they got a big red screen saying that they had reached a dangerous website. Super frustrating. My security rules protected any files from being accessed without permission, so I couldn't figure it out. I put in an appeal once a week for a little over a month and I just received about 5 emails on Tuesday "sincerely apologizing for any inconvenience" and saying that they had found nothing wrong with my files and removed the warnings. 

I guess keep putting in the appeals and hope they get to it soon. I have to think they're using AI to scan all of the files and stuff and that's what's causing the false positives. This experience has caused me to start looking elsewhere for cloud hosting.

[Tech Xploration]

Thanks for your response Adam. 

Truth be told the late response on the appeals is super frustrating. It's been a week and 1 day now since 2 appeals were sent. I'm still resolving it with them, keeping my fingers crossed and hope it doesn't happen again. 

Thankfully, I had a response from firebase support so im following up on their directives.

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