In a phishing attack,
hackers based in China broke into hundreds of Gmail accounts,
including those belonging to senior US government officials
and military personnel, Internet serach giant Google has said.
"Through the strength of our cloud-based security
and abuse detection systems, we recently uncovered a campaign
to collect user passwords, likely through phishing," Google
said in a posting yesterday.
The Internet giant said it has uncovered a "phishing
campaign," which "appears to originate from Jinan, China" in
which access was gained to Gmail user passwords and emails,
Google Security Team's Engineering Director Eric Grosse said
in a blog post.
The "bad actors" hacked into personal Gmail accounts
of hundreds of users including, senior US government
officials, Chinese political activists, officials in several
Asian countries (predominantly South Korea), military
personnel and journalists, Grosse added. PTI
