INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISTS IN CHINA ALSO CLAIM THEIR GMAIL ACCOUNTS HAVE BEEN HACKED
January 21st 2010 02:29
International journalists in China said that their Google e-mail accounts have been hacked in attacks similar to the ones against human rights activists that the search giant cited as a reason for considering pulling out of the country.
AP reported that the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China sent an e-mail on Monday to its members warning that reporters in at least two news bureaus in Beijing said their Gmail accounts had been broken into, with their e-mails surreptitiously forwarded to unfamiliar accounts.
Although the warning did not name the organizations, one of the accounts belonged to an Associated Press journalist.
John Daniszewski, senior managing editor for international news at the news cooperative in New York, said AP will be investigating to determine if any vital information was compromised.
The foreign correspondents' club asked its members to be vigilant in protecting their e-mail accounts and computers from attack.
China-based international correspondents have seen their e-mail accounts hit by periodic waves of cyber attacks and snooping from undetermined sources over the past two years. The AP, Agence France-Presse, Dow Jones, Reuters and other news organizations were targeted in September in an attack in which viruses were implanted in ordinary looking e-mails.
The e-mails, which appeared to be from an editor of an English-language paper in Singapore, bore an attachment that once opened would install malware on computers, according to a report late last year by computer security experts McAfee Inc.
AP reported that the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China sent an e-mail on Monday to its members warning that reporters in at least two news bureaus in Beijing said their Gmail accounts had been broken into, with their e-mails surreptitiously forwarded to unfamiliar accounts.
Although the warning did not name the organizations, one of the accounts belonged to an Associated Press journalist.
The foreign correspondents' club asked its members to be vigilant in protecting their e-mail accounts and computers from attack.
China-based international correspondents have seen their e-mail accounts hit by periodic waves of cyber attacks and snooping from undetermined sources over the past two years. The AP, Agence France-Presse, Dow Jones, Reuters and other news organizations were targeted in September in an attack in which viruses were implanted in ordinary looking e-mails.
The e-mails, which appeared to be from an editor of an English-language paper in Singapore, bore an attachment that once opened would install malware on computers, according to a report late last year by computer security experts McAfee Inc.
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