Technology | Google China: Blaming Us for Google Hack 'Unacceptable' Beijing rejects notion it was involved in phishing campaign By Evann Gastaldo Posted Jun 2, 2011 7:29 AM CDT Copied In a Monday March 22, 2010, file photo men walk past the Google China headquarters in Beijing, China (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan/file) China has rejected the notion that it was involved in a phishing campaign that hacked into the Gmail accounts of US government officials and Chinese activists, the BBC and the Telegraph report today. Google yesterday claimed the campaign originated in Jinan, although it did not directly blame the Chinese government. Even so, a foreign ministry spokesperson says that "blaming these misdeeds on China is unacceptable," adding that "the claims of so-called Chinese state support for hacking are completely fictitious and have ulterior motives." Read These Next America's most popular cooking oil is tied to weight gain. A troubled teen in Brazil climbed into a lioness' enclosure. Car buyers appear to be getting fed up with soaring prices. Kristi Noem issues a warning: 'We don't want them.' Report an error