Based on the investigation, now famous cyberatack last year, which fell victim to such Gmail came from two Chinese educational institutions.The attack, after which Google have thought over the cessation of its activities in China were carried out with the computers belonging to the Jiaotong University in Shanghai and Lanxiang Vocational School. This information is revealed New York Times newspaper, citing an unnamed source linked to a criminal investigation. One school of trained professionals for the army.
Earlier clues related to the attacks suggested that use servers located in Taiwan.
Although according to Google's attack occurred in December 2009, according to the findings of an investigation can begin as early as April last year. During last year's attack, but Google has been attacked at least 33 companies. In some cases, the stolen data.
According to experts from McAfee, an attack was possible due to vulnerability of Internet Explorer. As a result of the attack, Google has decided to introduce additional safeguards in Gmail, where the element is such change protocol to https. So far, the default protocol was very secure http. Code, which in December 2009 served as the Chinese hackers to attack e-mail accounts has been made available to the public.
