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Cyberattack on Google Said to Hit Password System
Thursday, April 22, 2010 at 12:36PM Cyberattack on Google Said to Hit Password System
By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: April 19, 2010
Ever since Google disclosed in January that Internet intruders had stolen information from its computers, the exact nature and extent of the theft has been a closely guarded company secret. But a person with direct knowledge of the investigation now says that the losses included one of Google’s crown jewels, a password system that controls access by millions of users worldwide to almost all of the company’s Web services, including e-mail and business applications.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/20/technology/20google.html?src=busln
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