The episode comes amid a flurry of cyber attacks in recent weeks, including one hacker’s access to Sony’s online video game accounts. Other world leaders affected include government officials from South Korea, Google said.Ī spokesman declined to comment on who the victims were and how long the hacker had access to their Gmail accounts. It has also notified relevant government authorities, the company said. In a blog post, Google said it has notified victims of the attack.
Google’s email service enables users to forward messages automatically and grant others access to their accounts. The company said it recently detected the security breach and stopped what it described as “a campaign to take users’ passwords and monitor their emails, with the perpetrators apparently using stolen passwords to change peoples’ forwarding and delegating settings.” government officials, military personnel, Chinese political activists and journalists. Google said Wednesday a hacker in China obtained access to hundreds of Gmail accounts, including those of senior U.S.
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