Google said that Chinese hackers had stolen the password for Gmail

Google on Wednesday announced that a covert operation from China, with its Gmail e-mail part of the user as the goal, the purpose is to steal passwords to monitor these accounts.
Google said in a blog post, this action is obviously from China, Jinan, the intruder stole a number of senior U.S. government officials, political activists in China, many Asian countries, officials, military personnel and journalists Gmail account .
This was the second division in China Google is the source of the invasion. Google last year, a careful investigation of the attack complex, the track hackers from China. The allegations caused it to rupture relations with the Chinese government, Google has decided not to cooperate with the Chinese government to filter search. Google search engine then it moved to Hong Kong.
An Jinan, the capital city of eastern China, a major military base, but also the military-funded Lanxiang location of the school. The invasion last year, investigators found the actions of Google as part of the system from the school. Xiang, the Chinese government strongly denied and blue, the Foreign Ministry also said that the Chinese government and linked to the invasion, was "not unreasonable, irresponsible, and ulterior motives." Currently a government spokesman could not be reached to comment on Google's The latest news.
Northrop Grumman Defense outsourcing company in 2009, on China's war plan made by the network research points out that this program located in six regions of China, and Jinan is one of them.
Google said the latest attack apparently in order to monitor the user's mail. Intruder steal password once these mailboxes will be able to change the settings to automatically forward incoming mail to another address. Google says it has stopped the action and notify the victims. Google has also reported the attack to the U.S. government's case.
Google's executives refused to comment on Bowen more than content. It recommended that Gmail users to add some security steps, including Google provides a "two-stage authentication" service, to make mail more difficult to be penetrated. But it also emphasized the user's password is not stolen because the Gmail system, due to a security vulnerability.
Earlier this year, Google said users can not log in from China, Gmail, and pointed out that the Chinese government is behind. It said this problem occurs, when China was initiated in North Africa and the Middle East with the same protest.
This year the Chinese government stepped up surveillance of the Internet to improve the content of the news and review blog site. Apparently paralyzed many government virtual private network (VPN). Many Chinese and foreigners to use these networks to log E-mail, or visit the website shielded by the government, such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.

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