The targets of the hackers who have broken into hundreds of Gmail accounts were high level government officials who are “known” public figures, says a system administrator who examined the innards of one of the compromised computers.When a Google engineer highlighted the incident on the company’s blog on Wednesday, he also linked to a malware blog maintained by “Mila Parkour”, the pseudonym for a systems administrator who the company says helped them to uncover the scam.
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