[hn_throwaway_99]

A large percentage of the planet has personal sensitive data stored by Google. If that data leaks, even due to a bug in another company's product through which Google has no fault, Google suffers. Google greatly benefits by having a secure Internet.

[netizen-936824]

On this note, has google ever had a breach? I actually can't think of one off the top of my head, which is impressive for a company like google with so much data and such a large footprint

Either their security or PR is great (or both?)

[sophacles]

There was this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora

It seems that the level of access gained could have been used for a larger breach but fortunately the attackers had different motives.

[robocat]

Google banned Windows throughout the organisation in 2010 due to this (with some well fenced exceptions where Windows was unavoidable).

1. Google will do costly things to be secure.

2. At the time I did not hear of any other organisation following Google’s lead.

3. They did not reverse the ban later.

[joshuamorton]

Also, iirc P0 was created as a result of that breach.

[rodgerd]

> has google ever had a breach?

They've been completely breached by Chinese agencies in the past, and IIRC the revelations in the Snowden leaks prompted them to redo their entire internal networking layout because of concerns about state-level spying.

On the Android front they keep tightening up access (removing more power from root, more use of SELinux and other controls) because of breaches in one form or another.

[helsinki]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5982313