Google Says Chinese Hackers Stole Gmail Passwords

By artappraiser on Wed, 06/01/2011 - 6:46pm |

By John Markoff and David Barboza, New York Times, June 1/2, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO — Google said Wednesday that some users of Gmail, its e-mail service, had been the targets of a clandestine campaign originating in China that was aimed at stealing passwords and monitoring e-mail accounts.

In a blog post, the company said that the campaign appeared to originate from the city of Jinan, China, and that the attackers had hijacked the personal Gmail accounts of senior government officials in the United States, Chinese political activists, officials in several Asian countries, military personnel and journalists....

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/02/technology/02google.html?_r=1&hp