Ever since Google disclosed in january that internet intruders had stolen information about its computers, the exact nature and extent of theft has been a closely guarded company secret.But the person with the direct investigation now says the losses included one of the google's crown jewels,a password system that controls acess by millions of users worldwide to almost all of the company's web services, including email and business applications.
The programme, code named Gaia for the greek goddess of earth, was attacked in a lightning raid taking less than two days last december. It was described publicly only once at conference four year ago that the software is intended to enable users and employees to sign in with password just once to operate a range of services.
The intruders do not appear to have stolen password s of gmail users , and the company quickly started making significant changes to security of its networks after the instrusions. But the theft leaves open the possibility, however faint ,that the intrunders may find weaknesses that Google might not even be aware of.
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