The Aurora hackers gained access on Google’s servers to a database that contained information on U.S. surveillance targets. The database included years of surveillance information, including thousands of court orders issued to law enforcement officials around the nation seeking to monitor suspects’ email, as well as classified orders targeting foreign subjects. Google was one of 20-plus companies attacked at the same time by the same group, including Adobe Systems, Juniper Networks, Rackspace, Yahoo, Symantec, Northrop Grumman and Dow Chemical.”]

