Just 12 accounts hacked from China, really? I think it's pretty well documented that the hacking issues were more way more extensive than 12 account.
It's debatable whether it was government sponsored hacking or private citizens but regardless, it's a gross understatement to say it's 12 accounts. My own personal Gmail account from a Chinese IP a few days before the Google PR post.
No one doubts that IPs coming from China log-in-with-stolen-passwords into Gmail, hotmail, and mail.yahoo every single day.
Or that there are attempts to steal worthy information and data through other means.
Some of these attempts are state-sponsored, some are corporate-sponsored, others are crime-sponsored.
Russia does this, US does this, and just about every other player does this.
This happens every day.
It's nothing new.
The point is that Google entered China (the #1 known player in this game of hacking and espionage), then when the expected happened, used it's PR machine to pretend they were pulling out because of some of these attempts, with the main focus (in that PR attempt) on the dozen email accounts of activists.
It's debatable whether it was government sponsored hacking or private citizens but regardless, it's a gross understatement to say it's 12 accounts. My own personal Gmail account from a Chinese IP a few days before the Google PR post.
Press "Google said Wednesday a hacker in China obtained access to hundreds of Gmail accounts, including those of senior U.S. government officials, military personnel, Chinese political activists and journalists" - http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-tech/post/google-hu... http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/jan/20/google... http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/jan/20/google...
User Posting(s) http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=5da16... http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=49aa5...