Hackers in China have compromised personal e-mail accounts of hundreds of top US officials, military personnel and journalists, Google has said.The US company said a campaign to obtain passwords originated in Jinan and was aimed at monitoring e-mail.Google said its security was not breached but indicated individuals’ passwords were obtained through fraud.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13623378Also see:Google phishing: Chinese Gmail attack raises cyberwar tensions
Tensions between the US, UK and China over the issue of cyber-attacks were set to escalate after it emerged that Chinese hackers have stolen the login details of hundreds of senior US and South Korean government officials as well as Chinese political activists.Google said it had discovered and alerted hundreds of people who had been taken in by a carefully targeted “phishing” scam originating from Jinan, the capital of Shandong province. Hackers aimed to get complete control of users’ email accounts on the Gmail system.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/01/google-hacking-chinese-attack-gmailGoogle Says Hackers in China Stole Gmail Passwords
Google said Wednesday that hundreds of users of Gmail, its e-mail service, had been the targets of clandestine attacks apparently originating in China that were aimed at stealing their passwords and monitoring their e-mail.In a blog post, the company said the victims included senior government officials in the United States, Chinese political activists, officials in several Asian countries, military personnel and journalists.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/02/technology/02google.htmlGoogle reveals Gmail hacking, says likely from China
Hackers likely based in China tried to break into hundreds of Google email accounts of senior U.S. government officials, Chinese activists and journalists to steal their passwords, the Internet company said.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 that U.S. investigators last year linked to a previous attack on Google.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/06/02/uk-google-hacking-idUKTRE7510T920110602
http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/06/01/idINIndia-57437720110601