Among the documents just published on Wikileaks, emails and telegrams emerge that explain the reasons and masterminds behind the attack on Google that occurred about a year ago.
The very latest news appearing in these hours on Wikileaks is not only shaking the world of diplomacy but is shedding light on the cyber-attack on Google that occurred last December and last January in China. The web giant immediately pointed the finger at the Chinese government, suspecting that China was behind the hacking action. According to what emerged at the time, Google experts found a connection between the intrusion into the information systems and a Chinese university, an institution notoriously linked to the Chinese government and military. Although no evidence was found to explicitly accuse the Chinese government, the attacks of those days gave rise to such hypotheses, as they were carried out not only against Google (primarily targeting Gmail in an attempt to steal personal data that could identify dissidents) but also against American and foreign companies operating in China.
It is worth remembering that the attacks on Google triggered a standoff between the web giant and the local government, leading to the redirection of queries from China to the freer servers in Hong Kong.
So far, the theories and hypotheses: today on Wikileaks it is possible to read a confidential telegram written by an informant from the US embassy in China that puts the suspicions in black and white.
Thus, the news that the Politburo of Beijing orchestrated the intrusion into Google’s IT systems in China is now public domain.
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