Prominent users of Google's Gmail may have had their email accounts hijacked, Google said Wednesday, and the attack appears to have originated in China.
Eric Grosse, engineering director for Google's security team, said in a blog posting Wednesday that Google "recently uncovered a campaign to collect user passwords, likely through phishing. This campaign, which appears to originate from Jinan, China, affected what seem to be the personal Gmail accounts of hundreds of users including, among others, senior U.S. government officials, Chinese political activists, officials in several Asian countries (predominantly South Korea), military personnel and journalists."
The White House said it does not believe any U.S. government email accounts were breached in the attack, but that it is investigating.
