[dumpthelibs]

BTW, why does it matter where they are? Hackers access you from anywhere. Am I missing something here?

[Yo-Yo]

Google has a special service inside "The Great Firewall of China" that provides only Party-approved search results. For example, if you were within China and Googled "tiananmen square," you would not see:

Apparently the "hackers" have access to Google servers, perhaps physical access (i.e. employees.)

[af_vet_rr]

BTW, why does it matter where they are? Hackers access you from anywhere. Am I missing something here?

If it were just typical botnet/phishing types of scams, it would be one thing - they deal with this constantly from every country.

If you read between the lines, Google is implying the Chinese government is probably behind the attacks, given the accounts that were targeted.

It's a big deal for them to do this publicly, and I expect they will pull out of China - they wouldn't announce something like this unless they had already started plans in motion. My guess is they are going to try and use it as leverage against the Chinese government at the last second, but they sound like they know that it's useless.