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  • http://twitter.com/ChazClout ChazClout

    Phishing attack…

    They swallowed it hook, line and sinker.

    #pun

  • Anonymous

    I bet those hackers are hard at work from their base, Foxconn.

    • Anonymous

      Not so sure.  My guess is someone at the Apple Store in Shanghai!  The HORRIBLE one with the glass…  Who comes up with those horrible designs anyway.  I don’t know ONE single Goofan (aka Apple Hater) that feels any of those designs are appealing. And we are style gurus, so we know!

      • Anonymous

        That sounds just like the one here, on the UWS.

  • Anonymous

    Absolute BS.  No one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, can break into Google!  Android, their OS of preference is absolutely infallible!  My guess?  Apple orchestrated this to talk about iCloud next week!  

    • http://twitter.com/ChazClout ChazClout

      Did you RTFA?

      Phishing. (Sounds like fishing, geddit?)
      “Phishing is a way of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.”

      This is PEBCAC, nothing more.

      Unfunny anti-troll is unfunny. Try harder GoofanAKASausageLover.

      • Anonymous

        Oh, should I feel offended by an obvious Apple Fangirl?  

      • Anonymous

        Goofan, she is not worth it. Probably still wears an iChastity belt and only Steve bJobs can unbootstrap’ her.

      • Anonymous

        SausageLover (aka Goofan) dont be mad.

      • Anonymous

        @Smakdown:disqus :-)  I am never mad.  Actually, when Brazil loses in the world cup, or the Miami Dolphins lose or the Heat Lose or the Marlins lose, I do get a little irked!  :-)

  • Anonymous

    If I was a betting man, I’d bet this was more about those Chinese political activists than anything else.

  • http://twitter.com/McHoffa Mike Hoffman

    don’t use the word “hack”… no one “hacked” anything… this was just people entering their passwords on a fake google login page that pretty much anyone could build

  • Anonymous

    Virgins.  A Phishing scam?  Come on.  Good for Google on securing there systems unlike other companies, no names, ahimhim Sony.

  • http://www.daverea.com/ Dave

    Breakin? Really? So if you ask me (however craftily) for a key to my house, and I give it to you, then you use the key to enter my house, you’ve just broken in?

    For as long as there are passwords, there will be people who either refuse to understand their proper use, or succumb to simple social engineering tactics to harvest those passwords. 

  • Anonymous

    act of war? hack = missiles? lol

    • Michael Scrip

      How sad would it be if World War 3 was started from a phishing scam…

  • http://twitter.com/GabrielZorrilla Gabriel A. Zorrilla

    No hacking here, as other pointed out. Just sensationalist header. Please be sure to do NOT click in ANY ad displayed while you read the news.

  • QNX Please

    Huge difference between this and actually hacking into Google’s servers. This has nothing to do with Gmail security, but idiots that gave their information away. Great journalism BGR….

    • Anonymous

      But MACDefender is a virus, right?

  • Moe

    “The U.S. General Services Administration may look to other consumer technologies to save money — the group estimates that its plan to move 17,000 of its employees to Gmail could save 50% in expenses over the next five years”
    Really!!!!????  Think again!

    • Anonymous

      Don’t worry, they’re going to sign personal liability agreements. That will make everything ok.

      • Moe

        Sure! Someone getting fired will fix it all and they can go back to their Gmail feeling safer.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you Mr. Geller for the accurate title. It would have been so easy to go with something moronic like, “GOOGLE HACKED”, which is not at all what happened. You sir get a cookie!

    Wait a second. Why in the world are “senior U.S. government personnel” not using 2-step Verification? Heck, why would anyone with a Google Account not be using 2-step Verification?

  • Anonymous

    Who’s bright idea at BGR was it to label this piece “Hackers break into hundreds of Gmail accounts?” If it is a phishing attempt, nobody broke into anything. They simply got the email addresses of there victims and sent them an email with a link. This is an example of “Spin Journalism”. 

  • Anonymous

    Let’s get something clear, a phishing scam is not “Breaking” into an account. Phishing scams only work on stupid people.

    The “irl” equivelant is a stranger walking up to you on the street asking for your house keys, you give it to them, no questions asked, and then act horrified as you go home that night and all your stuff is missing.

    This type of “hack” has absolutely NOTHING to do with the delivery channel (i.e. Gmail). The “hacker” asked for login credentials, and all these idiots gave it. Could just as easily been Yahoo, AOL, a letter in an envelope, a phone call, etc.

  • ambient711

    ok seriously BGR change the title.  The accounts were NOT hacked, the users clicked a random email and put in there information.  hence phishing not hacking….  

  • Anonymous

    China should be destroyed by 10.1 magnetitide earthquake, not Japan.

  • Level380

    The headline is a little misleading, the chinese hacker, DIDN’T break into hundreds of gmail accounts, instead he tricked the owners of these accounts to GIVE UP their username and passwords via a Phishing scam. This is at the same level as ATM skimming, do we say that banks ATMs have been ‘hacked’ into when a skimmer skims some cards and pins of a ATM via card readers and cameras to record the pins?

    No….. Bad BGR!!

  • http://rmbo47.myopenid.com/ rmbo47

    This kind of breach is very troubling for Chrome netbook users. Considering Google is your hard drive, any security breach is like showing your files to a bunch of Chinese hackers, and that can’t fill you with warm-fuzzies.

  • Jamma3

    Wow and there was a report out that the US government wanted to move to gmail account to save money.
    There goes all the secrets

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