- According to classified information sent by the US diplomats to Hillary Clinton's state department in Washington, the hacking, which forced the search engine to withdraw from mailand China was down to a senior member of the communist Politburo.
- He searched his own name on google to find that he was being personally criticised, prompting a politicallly inspired assault on Google which led to them losing out on a market of 400 million internet users.
- The politician allegedly collaborated with a second member of the Politburo to try and force Google to drop one of its Chinese links.
- The cyber assault was described as '100% per cent political in nature' and having 'nothing to do with removing Google as a competitor to Chinese search engines.'
- Google claimed that last december it was hit by a 'Highly sophisticated and targeted attack on its corporate infrastructure.'
- Although they claimed in January that 'there was no evidence that the attackers were successful.'
- Google retained a link to the unfiltered Google.com on its Google.cn website, which prompted months of tension before the January incident.
- Dan Piccuta, the US chargé d'affaires recently discovered that Google's worldwide site is uncensored after he allegedly entered his own name and found results critical of him.
- Google claimed that removing the link to google.com is against company policy.
- The Chinese government blocked access to Google for 24 hours after claiming that it was not effectively filtering porographic sites.
- After Google made the attacking public, Hillary Clinton made a speech in Washington, titled 'remarks on internet freedom'
- She was by far in favour of Google, stating that 'countries that restrict free access to internet information risk walling themselves off from the progress of the next century.'
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