Cryptogon
Thursday, January 14, 2009
Via: Computer World:
Drummond said that the hackers never got into Gmail accounts via
the Google hack, but they did manage to get some “account
information (such as the date the account was created) and subject
line.”
That’s because they apparently were able to access
a system used to help Google comply with search warrants by providing
data on Google users, said a source familiar with the situation, who
spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak
with the press. “Right before Christmas, it was, ‘Holy
s***, this malware is accessing the internal intercept
[systems],’” he said.
That, in turn led to a Christmas Eve meeting led by Google
co-founder Larry Page to assess the situation. Three weeks later, the
company had decided that things were serious enough that it would risk
walking away from the largest market of Internet users in the world.
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