Google says cyberattacks have also recently targeted the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists
The Gmail accounts of foreign reporters in at least two news bureaus in Beijing have been hijacked, a journalists' group in China said Monday.
BBC reports Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL and others targeted by industry-wide attack
Google's Gmail and Yahoo's Mail were also targeted by a large-scale phishing attack, perhaps the same one that harvested at least 10,000 passwords from Microsoft's Windows Live Hotmail, according to a report by the BBC.
You could argue that Google is fundamentally reluctant to respect privacy in preference of innovation
Do you trust Google? If you use its multitude of online services on a daily basis you might, but is that assumption wise? For some, Google is a wonderful company with a broad selection of useful online tools that make life easier, but for others Google is a looming, unregulated monster just waiting for the moment to drop the 'don't' from the company's unofficial motto, "Don't be evil."
Researchers have identified numerous methods to recover the names behind GMail accounts and it seems that more are uncovered every day.
Who is the real identity behind that Gmail account? While finding out may not be as easy as knowing who is behind chunkylover53@aol.com (Homer Simpson, for the curious), it apparently isn't much harder.
