![]() "Given my background, one would have to guess that it's the Russians. Stanford professor Michael McFaul, former US ambassador to Russia said that he too received warnings from Google. The same stranger is also believed to have contacted four reporters with The Atlantic - David Frum, James Fallows and Adam Serwer, Andrew Sullivan – as well as Ars Technica's Dan Goodin. He would not give me his name, meet me or talk on the phone, despite repeated requests." GQ special contributor Keith Olbermann claimed that he began receiving the warnings shortly after the election.Ĭhait claimed that he was "contacted over email by a stranger who offered to help me by giving me an encryption key to protect me from hackers. New Republic’s Julia Ioffe and Vice News’ Simon Ostrovskyjust to name a fewoffer experience. On 14 December 2016, reporter Julia Ioffes plans to leave Politico for The Atlantic were hastened by a controversy over a Twitter comment she made about Ivanka Trump and. Jonathan Chait of New York Magazine, Julia Ioffe from The Atlantic, Ezra Klein, the founder of Vox,CNN senior media reporter Brian Stelter, New York Times national security correspondent David Sanger, Times columnist Paul Krugman and Yahoo Washington bureau chief Garance Franke-Ruta, are among those who confirmed having recently received Google's warning. Two paragons of the new form, Nate Silver and Ezra Klein. ![]() We send these warnings out of an abundance of caution - they do not indicate that a user's account has already been compromised or that a more widespread attack is occurring when they receive the notice." "I worry that the outcome is going to be the same: Someone, somewhere, is going to get hacked, and then the contents of their gmail will be weaponized against them - and by extension all media."Ī Google spokesperson said, "Since 2012, we've notified users when we believe their Google accounts are being targeted by government-backed attackers. "The fact that all this started right after the election suggests to me that journalists are the next wave to be targeted by state-sponsored hackers in the way that Democrats were during it," said one journalist who got the warning. ![]() Twitter continues its loss-making streak posting slowest revenue growth since it went public
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