State-sponsored hackers targeting prominent journalists, Google warns; Politico, February 10, 2017

Daniel Lippman, Politico; 

State-sponsored hackers targeting prominent journalists, Google warns

"Google has warned a number of prominent journalists that state-sponsored hackers are attempting to steal their passwords and break into their inboxes, the journalists tell POLITICO...

Some journalists getting the warnings say they suspect the hackers could be Russians looking to find incriminating emails they could leak to embarrass journalists, either by revealing alleged liberal bias or to expose the sausage-making of D.C. journalism."