That we were under some form of attack wasn’t unusual, in fact it happened practically every day. But this time was different. The sophistication of the attack was something we hadn’t experienced before, and so was its objective. A criminal (or, more likely, team of criminals) had somehow found a way to access Google’s corporate servers. Up until then, most bad guys who attacked us were intent on disrupting Google’s services, to shut us down or make it harder for users to access us. This time the bad guys wanted our confidential information.
