The world’s largest search engine, Google, could discontinue operations in China due to an incident where Chinese Dissidents hacked Gmail accounts. Apparently, a series of sophisticated cyberattacks took place last week against an estimated 34 companies in the U.S. to fish out confidential software source codes.  This certainly is not the first time hackers have been identified from China as the origin for other former cyberattcks making search giant Google weary of continuing operations in the country. Victims of the attack include multinational corporations, mostly from California, and include law offices, high tech companies, and other entities. The Chinese government has been identified as possibly being involved in the infringement of Chinese human rights activists through gmail accounts hosted on the computer networks of these companies located in the United States. Despite this backlash against Google company policy and long standing privacy policy, a booming Chinese market could cost Google some 300 Billion in annual revenue if the company decided to leave. Having just entered the Chinese market in 2006, Google agreed to follow China’s filtering policies and abide by content regulations, however, this invasion of privacy policy might be the end of the line for Google.