Security experts see it as the most public admission of a top IT problem for U.S. companies: ongoing corporate espionage originating from China. Google’s decision to risk walking away from the world’s largest Internet market may have come as a shock, but security experts say it’s a shock. Google: “Primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists” Sources: 33 other companies had also been compromised, including Adobe Systems, according to sources familiar with the situation.”]
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