{"id":434179,"date":"2011-06-01T20:54:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T20:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/01\/china-hackers-hit-google-e-mail\/"},"modified":"2011-06-01T20:54:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T20:54:31","slug":"china-hackers-hit-google-e-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/01\/china-hackers-hit-google-e-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;China hackers&#8217; hit Google e-mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"48.2585365854\"><span><span>1 June 2011<\/span> <span>Last updated at<\/span> <span>16:54 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hackers in China have compromised personal e-mail accounts of hundreds of top US officials, military personnel and journalists, Google has said.<\/p>\n<p>The US company said a campaign to obtain passwords originated in China and was aimed at monitoring e-mail.<\/p>\n<p>Google said its security was not breached but indicated passwords were obtained via fraud or from other sites.<\/p>\n<p>Also targeted were Chinese political activists and officials in other Asian countries, <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/ensuring-your-information-is-safe.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FMKuf+%28Official+Google+Blog%29&#038;utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher\">Google said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Google detected and has disrupted this campaign to take users&#8217; passwords and monitor their emails,&#8221; the company said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have notified victims and secured their accounts. In addition, we have notified relevant government authorities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the rest here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/world-us-canada-13623378\" title=\"'China hackers' hit Google e-mail\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;China hackers&#8217; hit Google e-mail<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 1 June 2011 Last updated at 16:54 ET 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 China and was aimed at monitoring e-mail. Google said its security was not breached but indicated passwords were obtained via fraud or from other sites. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":434180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-434179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;China hackers&#039; hit Google e-mail - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/01\/china-hackers-hit-google-e-mail\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"&#039;China hackers&#039; hit Google e-mail - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"1 June 2011 Last updated at 16:54 ET Hackers in China have compromised personal e-mail accounts of hundreds of top US officials, military personnel and journalists, Google has said. 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