Google Warning Gmail Users On Spying From China

Trailrunner7 writes "Google is using automated warnings to alert users of its Gmail messaging service about widespread attempts to access personal mail accounts from Internet addresses in China. The warnings may indicate wholesale spying by the Chinese government a year after the Google Aurora attacks, or simply random attacks. Victims include one leading privacy activist. Warnings appeared when users logged onto Gmail, encountering a red banner reading, 'Your account was recently accessed from China,' and providing a list of IP addresses used to access the account. Users were then encouraged to change their password immediately. Based on Twitter posts, there doesn't seem to be any pattern to the accounts that were accessed, though one target is a prominent privacy rights activist in the UK who has spoken out against the Chinese government's censorship of its citizens. A Google spokesman declined to comment on the latest warnings specifically. The company has been issuing similar warnings since March, when it introduced features to identify suspicious account activity."

Comments

China shouldn't have been allowed to join the WTO

[Zelgadiss]

We are now see their true colours.

They are like evil villains you see in the movies but for real.

We the world just made them into a very dangerous Superpower.

Re:What reality do you live in?

[meerling]

At least the US hasn't ran over it's own students with tanks yet.

Re:Maybe some access controls would help

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

11 characters, 44 is crazy to me.

Make it a phrase, much easier to get large number of characters that way, although it does lower the entropy.