The hackers recently tried to crack and
monitor email accounts by stealing passwords, but Google
detected and "disrupted" their campaign, the world's largest
Web search company said on its official blog.The revelation
comes more than a year after Google disclosed a cyberattack on
its systems that it said it traced to China, and could further
strain an already tense relationship between the Web giant and
Beijing.
Google partially pulled out of China, the world's largest
Internet market by users, last year after a tussle with the
government over censorship and a serious hacking episode.
"We recently uncovered a campaign to collect user
passwords, likely through phishing," Google said, referring to
the practice where computer users are tricked into giving up
sensitive information.
