For the longest time, the very nature and extent of the information theft Google had disclosed in very general terms in January 2010 was treated as a closely guarded company secret.
As reported by the New York Times, “a person with direct knowledge of the investigation now says that the losses included one of Google’s crown jewels, a password system that controls access by millions of users worldwide to almost all of the company’s Web services, including e-mail and business applications.”
Even though Google made significant changes to its networks after the intrusions, there is still the possibility left that the perpetrators will find a weakness in the code that the company is not aware of. USA Today therefore emphasizes that “the search giant could be facing complex security and liability issues for some time to come, security and tech industry analysts say.”
This once more illustrates the risks associated with entrusting vast amounts of digital information to storage in a cluster of computers “somewhere out there”, commonly referred to as “cloud computing”; a single breach can result in disastrous leaks or losses.
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