Google Source Code Stolen

From the Gaia dept.:
Ever since Google disclosed in January that Internet intruders had stolen information from its computers, the exact nature and extent of the theft has been a closely guarded company secret. But a person with direct knowledge of the investigation now says that the losses included one of Googleâ??s crown jewels, a password system that controls access by millions of users worldwide to almost all of the companyâ??s Web services, including e-mail and business applications.
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The program, code named Gaia for the Greek goddess of the earth, was attacked in a lightning raid taking less than two days last December, the person said. Described publicly only once at a technical conference four years ago, the software is intended to enable users and employees to sign in with their password just once to operate a range of services.

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