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A leaked U.S. government cable shows sources told American diplomats that hacking attacks against Google were ordered by China's top ruling body.

U.S. government analysts believe a Chinese man with government links wrote the key part of a spyware program used in hacker attacks on Google last year, the Financial Times reported Monday.

A Chinese vocational school has denied a report it was a source of recent cyber attacks on Internet giant Google and other U.S. corporations, Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.

The Internet attacks that may end up driving Google Inc. out of China originated from two prominent schools in the country, according to a story published late Thursday. The New York Times reported security investigators have traced the hacking to computers at Shanghai Jiaotong University and Lanxiang Vocational School in China. The newspaper attributed the information to unnamed people involved in the investigation.
Google didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.

Officials at the National Security Agency have been working with Google to investigate the cyber attacks that Google believes originated in China.