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Google Sends State-Sponsored Hack Warnings To Journalists and Professors (ibtimes.co.uk)
An anonymous reader shares an IBTimes report: Numerous journalists and professors are taking to social media to report that they have received an alarming message regarding state-sponsored hacking when accessing their Gmail or other sites that use their Google account. Journalists who received the warning include Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, New York magazine's Jonathan Chait, Politico's Julia Ioffe, GQ's special correspondent Keith Olbermann, Vox's Ezra Klein, Yahoo News' Garance Franke-Ruta, and one of President Barack Obama's former speechwriters, Jon Lovett. The warning says, "Google may have detected government-backed attackers trying to steal your password." These warnings are being sent by Google since 2012 but Twitter has erupted with a flurry of people in the media and academic community receiving this in the past 24 hours.
Have you not noticed that ever since Trump won the election, the hacks stopped being from "Russia" are started being "State-sponsored" and from a "Nation-state" ?
There is one nation-state with the most incentive to influence our elections and hack its "prominent" people, and it isnt Russia. Its America.
"His name was James Damore."
After hacking the DNC and hacking voting machines to win Putin buddy Trump the election, they are now moving against the people who might have the interest or power to report on the background on what is happening in the USA in these very troubled times.
I guess they are trying to dig up dirt to blackmail people.
Don't underestimate the power of Russian Intelligence Services. Numerous reports cite Russian hackers are the best in the world and their very president is a former KGB agent.