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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A December cyberattack on Google Inc computers hit the company's password system that millions of people worldwide use to access almost all of the company's Web services, The New York Times said, citing a person with direct knowledge of the investigation.
 
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The closely-guarded program is considered a crown jewel at Google, enabling users and employees to sign in with their password only once to operate various services including e-mail and business applications, the newspaper said in its April 20 edition.
Code-named Gaia for the Greek goddess of the earth, and still in use under the name Single Sign-On, the program was described publicly only once at a technical conference four years ago, the newspaper said.
The intruders do not appear to have stolen passwords of Gmail users, and Google quickly started to bolster security, the newspaper said.
But the theft leaves open a possibility, perhaps faint, that the intruders may find weaknesses that Google might not know about, the newspaper said, citing independent computer experts.
Google disclosed the hacking on January 12, when on its website it reported having detected "a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google."
The Mountain View, California-based company said the attack appeared to target Chinese human rights activists, and that only two Gmail accounts appeared to have been accessed.
"We're not going to comment beyond our original blog post," Jay Nancarrow, a spokesman for Google, said on Monday night. "That remains our statement of record on the issue."
When it revealed the attack, Google said it would stop censoring search results on Google.cn.
In March, it closed its China-based Web search service and began redirecting users to an uncensored portal in Hong Kong. That decision came amid heightened tensions between China and Washington, D.C.
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Apr 19, 2010 11:25pm EDT
        
I can’t stand Google. 
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Apr 19, 2010 11:59pm EDT
        
Perhaps Google should not irritate too many people and countries. Google is only a commercial compay, not the world police nor the world saver!
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Apr 20, 2010 12:21am EDT
        
The top two comments seem to be from the cadres of the communist party of china. Google is fighting for freedom of speech and it’s a fight worth fighting for.
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Apr 20, 2010 12:25am EDT
        
This is theft.  Let’s say the U.S. now owes China zero regarding the treasury bonds.
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Perhaps Google is not “just” anything.  It is most certainly a commercial company, but perhaps its meaning encompasses more than its profit-maximizing duty as a publicly traded firm would suggest.  It would be plausible that Google merely withdrew from its Chinese censorship operations to protect its intangible assets and brand value in regions that represent higher profit potentials, but maybe it is also the case that the people that run daily operations at Google were concerned that the Chinese people should be allowed to learn about their history and heritage, such as the June Fourth Movement.
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Apr 20, 2010 12:56am EDT
        
More proof that China cannnot be trusted as a responsible power!
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Apr 20, 2010 1:20am EDT
        
Look, the 50-cent party has gone international!
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Apr 20, 2010 1:34am EDT
        
Screw Google!  Why are they picking on China???
wait, who wrote that?  damn hackers again!!
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Even Wallmart is moving away from China.  Wallmart resently stated that they will get more of their products from countries like India instead of China.  
The funny thing is that Chinese always blame others for their failures.  Because of the xenophobia and racism in China, more and more companies will leave the market.  Because of chinese protectionism, more and more nations will stop giving China advantages on trade like in the past.  China’s arrogance will be what ruins their development.  But, as with other history, the communist party will rewrite the history to make it seem like it was someone else’s fault instead of putting the blame where it belongs; The chinese leaders incompetence is what will hurt the growth of China’s economy.  The trends are already changing.  Just wait until the Chinese housing bubble pops.  
China’s is an arrogant, mercantilist nation. 
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