Attackers hit Google single sign-on password system
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The New York Times is reporting that Google’s password system was compromised during a targeted attack last December.
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But here's the good part.
The report said the hack started with an IM message to a Google employee in China who was using Microsoft MSN Messenger.
By clicking on a link and connecting to a “poisoned” Web site, the employee inadvertently permitted the intruders to gain access to his (or her) personal computer and then to the computers of a critical group of software developers at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Ultimately, the intruders were able to gain control of a software repository used by the development team.
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