China rejects Google hacking accusations

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China rejects Google hacking accusations

2011-06-02 21:17:35 GMT+7 (ICT)

BEIJING, CHINA (BNO NEWS) -- The Chinese government on Thursday rejected Google's hacking accusations and labeled them as groundless as the world's largest Internet search engine provided no solid proof to support the claims.

According to the state-run Xinhua news agency, Google said on Wednesday that a clandestine campaign originating from China intended to steal passwords and monitoring e-mail accounts from its Gmail service.

The California-based company said that the targets of the hacking scheme were Chinese and U.S. officials. Google did not present evidence to support its claims and the U.S. denied any hacking.

This was the second time that Google accused China of hacking attacks. Last year, the Chinese government was also accused by Google of supporting hacker attack against it. China was also pushed to remove regulations on the Internet by threatening to withdraw from the Chinese market.

In January 2010, Google announced that they were no longer willing to censor results on its Chinese search engine. The Chinese government set filters to control the information displayed in the search engine. The dispute was solved and China renewed Google's ICP license.

China said that it is not appropriate for Google to act as an Internet judge and lash out at others without solid evidence. These actions have become obstacles for enhancing global trust between stakeholders in cyberspace, according to the Chinese government.

Furthermore, the Asian giant said that its Internet users are also victims of hackers. An estimated 60 percent of the users experienced hacker attacks during the first half of 2010. More than 30 percent of China's web users had their online accounts or passwords stolen.

Founded in 1998, Google runs more than 1 million web servers in data centers around the world, and processes more than 1 billion online search requests. In this short period of time it became of the leading Internet companies worldwide.

-- © BNO News All rights reserved 2011-06-02

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Are we seriously being told that Senior US officials use GMAIL for their business e-mail system?

If so there is something very wrong in the US data administration setup.

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Are we seriously being told that Senior US officials use GMAIL for their business e-mail system?

If so there is something very wrong in the US data administration setup.

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