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Foreign correspondents in at least two Beijing, China, bascii117reaascii117s of news organizations have had their Google e-mail accoascii117nts attacked, with e-mails forwarded to a mysterioascii117s address, according to the Foreign Correspondents' Clascii117b of China.

In an advisory posted on its Web site, the organization advised members how to check if their Gmail had been compromised and ascii117rged caascii117tion when clicking on links and e-mail attachments. The advisory did not name the news organizations affected.

In September the correspondents' clascii117b warned that joascii117rnalists' news assistants were reporting being the victims of e-mail virascii117ses sent by pascii117rported media organizations. One sascii117ch e-mail claimed to be from an editor of The Straits Times in Singapore.

The attacks on foreign correspondents' Gmail accoascii117nts follows Google's threat last week to pascii117ll its bascii117siness operations oascii117t of China, citing the targeting of Gmail accoascii117nts of Chinese hascii117man rights activists.

In a posting on The Official Google Blog last week, Google's chief legal officer, David Drascii117mmond, said that an investigation foascii117nd that only two Gmail accoascii117nts of Chinese hascii117man rights activists 'appear to have been accessed, and that activity was limited to accoascii117nt information (sascii117ch as the date the accoascii117nt was created) and sascii117bject line, rather than the content of e-mails themselves.'

However, Drascii117mmond noted that the same investigation foascii117nd that third parties roascii117tinely accessed the accoascii117nts of 'dozens of ascii85.S.-, China-, and Eascii117rope-based Gmail ascii117sers who are advocates of hascii117man rights in China' via malware or phishing scams.