The company Google Inc. developed detailed plans for the closure of its search engine in China, which is 99,9% means that the company decided to cease its activities in that country, reported Bloomberg co reference to the "Financial times".
The Company may decide in the near future, but it will take time, because Google wants to make sure that employees do not suffer reprisals from the authorities, the newspaper said, citing a source familiar with the situation.
We remind that the Google executives said the possibility of exit from China's Internet market after the "sophisticated" cyber-attacks on the company's server, which, inter alia, led to the theft of intellectual property. Well-informed sources told the news agency Reuters, that the cyber attack was made possible through access to certain parts of the network of Google. In other words, they could help the staff of the Chinese company's office.
The investigation relates to one or more employees Google, suspected of involvement in the cyber-attack. At the same time from the attack hit the other 20 companies, including Adobe Systems Inc., Juniper Network Inc. and Rackspace Hosting Inc. One of the goals was a malicious server Yahoo Inc., The source said.
By security analysts say that a malicious program (malware), which was used in an attack on Google, is a modification of the Trojan Hydraq, opening unauthorized network access., Reports finance.ua However, the sophistication of cyber-attacks is not the program itself, and that hackers know where and how to carry out the attack, stress analysts.