BEIJING/SAN FRANCISCO: Suspected Chinese hackers tried to steal the passwords of hundreds of Google email account holders, including those of senior US government officials, Chinese activists and journalists , the internet company said.[sintuhack]
The claim by the world's largest web search engine sparked an angry response from Beijing, which said blaming China was "unacceptable," pointing to further tensions in an already strained relationship with Google.[sintuhack]
The perpetrators appeared to originate from Jinan, the capital of China's eastern Shandong province, Google said. Jinan is home to one of six technical reconnaissance bureaus belonging to the People's Liberation Army and a technical college US investigators last year linked to a previous attack on Google.[sintuhack]
Washington said it was investigating Google's claims while the FBI said it was working with Google following the attacks — the latest computerbased invasions directed at multinational companies.[sintuhack]
Andrew Davies of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute , an independent security and defence think tank, said governments needed to pay more attention to hacking no matter where it originated from. "I think there has been a certain lack of appreciation of the looming threat around the world," Davies said.
The hackers recently tried to crack and monitor email accounts by stealing passwords, but Google detected and "disrupted " their campaign, the company said on its official blog. Google said it had notified the victims.
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NOTE-- THE ABOVE CONTENT TAKEN FROM GOOGLE NEWS http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/china/Cyber-war-Google-China-in-fresh-spat-over-email-hacking/articleshow/8705176.cms
The claim by the world's largest web search engine sparked an angry response from Beijing, which said blaming China was "unacceptable," pointing to further tensions in an already strained relationship with Google.[sintuhack]
The perpetrators appeared to originate from Jinan, the capital of China's eastern Shandong province, Google said. Jinan is home to one of six technical reconnaissance bureaus belonging to the People's Liberation Army and a technical college US investigators last year linked to a previous attack on Google.[sintuhack]
Washington said it was investigating Google's claims while the FBI said it was working with Google following the attacks — the latest computerbased invasions directed at multinational companies.[sintuhack]
Andrew Davies of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute , an independent security and defence think tank, said governments needed to pay more attention to hacking no matter where it originated from. "I think there has been a certain lack of appreciation of the looming threat around the world," Davies said.
The hackers recently tried to crack and monitor email accounts by stealing passwords, but Google detected and "disrupted " their campaign, the company said on its official blog. Google said it had notified the victims.
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NOTE-- THE ABOVE CONTENT TAKEN FROM GOOGLE NEWS http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/china/Cyber-war-Google-China-in-fresh-spat-over-email-hacking/articleshow/8705176.cms
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