In mid December Google realized there was a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on Google infrastructure originating from China. As a result of this attack intellectual property was stolen from Google. As Google researched further into the attack they realized that this attack was on at least 20 other large companies including technology, internet, finance and media companies. One of the main reasons for this attack was to read the Gmail email accounts of Chinese human right activists. Fortunately, these attacks were not successful and they just found out basic information about the email accounts rather than the content of the emails. Google has already begun creating more security breaches and they are warning the public in order for their own safety. Usually, a high power company such as Google would not share this attack with the public because it clearly shows a weakness in their company. But they decided to share it in order to protect their users. This decision shows the honor of Google which makes me respect them even more than before.
