Chinese Hacker Cracks Hundreds of Gmail Accounts of U.S. & Asia
Jun 02, 2011
Chinese Hacker Cracks Hundreds of Gmail Accounts of U.S. & Asia Hackers around the world are gaining more attention than usual in the last few months. Now Google has added another announcement to the pile that hundreds of Gmail accounts have been hacked recently. Now, Google affirms that the problem doesn’t rest with Gmail security but rather this scheme was a result of phishing and malware. Google spilled the details on Wednesday via its official blog: Through the strength of our cloud-based security and abuse detection systems*, we recently uncovered a campaign to collect user passwords, likely through phishing. This campaign, which appears to originate from Jinan, China, affected what seem to be the personal Gmail accounts of hundreds of users including, among others, senior U.S. government officials, Chinese political activists, officials in several Asian countries (predominantly South Korea), military personnel and journalists. The goal of this effort seems to have bee...
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