It appears as if US investigators have identified the programmer responsible for the code behind the hacking attacks on Google and a number of other American companies earlier this year.
 
The Financial Times reported over the weekend that “[a] freelance security consultant in his 30s wrote the part of the program that used a previously unknown security hole in the Internet Explorer web browser to break into computers and insert the spyware.” He had been identified because, “Chinese officials had special access to the work of the author, who posted pieces of the program to a hacking forum and described it as something he was ‘working on’.”
 
Two Chinese schools, Shanghai Jiaotong University and Lanxiang vocational school, have also been linked with the attacks. "Jiaotong University has one of the best security departments in the country, US analysts said, with former government cyber commanders in residence." According to the BBC both schools deny any involvement in the attacks.