[lawnchair_larry]

Minor correction, it was not attacked to access accounts of human rights campaigners. It was leaked 2 months ago that Google lied about this and that the actual purpose was to see which of China's spies google were watching under NSL/FISA orders. So yes it was clearly Prism that they were accessing.

[temphn]

Wow. Looks like you're right.

  The breach appears to have been aimed at unearthing the 
  identities of Chinese intelligence operatives in the United 
  States who may have been under surveillance by American law 
  enforcement agencies.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/chines...