The Google hacking affair (which also involved a number of other Western companies) isn’t about to fade away quietly, especially not now, as US authorities think they’ve pin-pointed the author.

And embarrassingly enough for the Chinese government, that author would appear to be from their country.

In fact, he’s a Chinese thirty-something cyber-security consultant, so the Financial Times reports.

Although he just wrote the code, which took advantage of a flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser, and he didn’t actually launch the attack.

The FT’s source is apparently a researcher in the employ of the US government.

The Chinese government had previously denied any knowledge of the attack, although this information is going to make that denial harder to stand by, as apparently Chinese officials had access to the code

Source: Darren Allan