Gmail accounts used for sending transactional emails (e.g., password resets, notifications) often have high trust scores. If an attacker steals an app password or OAuth token from an .env file, they can:

: Often paired with searches to extract valid email lists or SMTP configurations.

The terms provided represent a specific Google Dork query used by security researchers and malicious actors to find exposed sensitive configuration files on the open web. Exploit-DB Query Breakdown