Google Warns Users of China Spying

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Some Gmail users were greeted with a red banner reading “Warning: We believe your account was recently accessed from: China” and were given a list of IP addresses where the hacks originated from, according to Threat Post.

Users whose accounts were accessed are advised by Google to change their passwords. Threat Post reports that among the hacked accounts was that of a prominent privacy rights activist in the U.K. who has spoke out against the Chinese regime’s information censorship.

This is not the first time the Chinese regime launched targeted attacks against user accounts of Google’s e-mail service, Gmail.

Such attacks prompted the company to stop censoring search results on its mainland China website, Google.cn, in January, 2010. Google now provides minimal options on Google.cn, and provides its Chinese users with redirect options to its uncensored Hong Kong website.