CBS Evening News - 2011-06-02
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[0:00] Tonight,
[0:02] security breach. The Gmail passwords of
[0:05] hundreds of US government officials are
[0:07] stolen and Google blames China.
[0:10] >> These allegations are very serious.
[0:12] >> I'm Harry Smith. Also tonight, a deadly
[0:15] tornado in an unlikely place. In this
[0:18] season of devastating twisters, central
[0:21] Massachusetts is the latest target.
[0:24] Rolling out Romney 2.0. Mitt Romney
[0:27] announces his second try for the
[0:29] Republican presidential nomination. And
[0:32] changing the shape of the American diet.
[0:35] The pyramid is out. The plate is in.
[0:42] >> This is the CBS Evening News.
[0:48] Good evening. We begin with a computer
[0:50] hacking case that carries huge
[0:52] international implications. That's
[0:54] because the targets included hundreds of
[0:56] high-level US government officials.
[0:59] Google says their personal Gmail
[1:01] accounts were compromised and the
[1:03] attacks originated in China. Today, the
[1:06] FBI was called in to investigate as
[1:08] federal agencies scrambled to find out
[1:10] if the hackers got any sensitive
[1:12] information. Wyatt Andrews has more.
[1:17] It's the second time Google has blamed a
[1:20] major computer hacking scheme on China.
[1:23] This time, Google says unknown hackers
[1:25] from Jinan, China, a city with a
[1:27] military command center, stole the
[1:30] personal Gmail passwords of hundreds of
[1:32] senior US government officials. Google
[1:35] said the hacker's goal was to eavesdrop
[1:38] on the officials to monitor the content
[1:40] of the users emails. That suggestion of
[1:43] spying rang alarm bells in the
[1:45] administration.
[1:46] >> These allegations are very serious. Uh
[1:49] we take them seriously. We're looking
[1:51] into them. Acco