Some portions of the population of the People’s Republic cannot help themselves. Google’s Gmail system is broken into with greater and greater frequency. The most serious battle was in early 2010 when a number of Gmail accounts were hacked.
The latest attack on Gmail seems to be the most serious. Google said in a blog post:
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.
If the past is a precedent, Google will try to enlist the US State Department to aggressively pursue the Chinese government over the matter and will be quietly turned down
Douglas A. McIntyre
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