Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google.
This attack may understandably raise some questions, so we wanted to take this opportunity to share some additional information and assure you that Google is introducing additional security measures to help ensure the safety of your data.
Coordinated enough to get at GMail’s internal data store, if only the one with e-mail headers. If that doesn’t scare you, it should. What Google does with their .cn site is relatively minor news.