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Google hackers stole valuable source code - McAfee

March 4, 2010

Hackers who instigated attacks on Google and other companies operating in China stole valuable computer source code by breaking into personal computers owned by workers with privileged access, Reuters reported, citing George Kurtz, chief technology officer at McAfee. Kurtz said the hackers targeted a small number of employees who controlled source code management systems. Google said in January that it and a number of other corporations had been infiltrated by a group of hackers operating out of China. Beijing has maintained that claims that Google was attacked by China-based hackers as "groundless."

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