Does this have anything to do with the backdoor API, or were the passwords just brute forced?
In this case it's phishing, read the post.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/02/more_details_o...
"The rumor that China used a system Google put in place to enable lawful intercepts, which I used as a news hook for this essay, has not been confirmed. At this point, I doubt that it's true."
People seem to randomly downvote a post they think is "wrong", with no explanation. Asking for one seems to make it worse.
(eg: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2586625. Perhaps I was a touch rude, but a better response would have been to reply politely, point out where I was wrong and make me seem like a small-minded fool. Instead, downvotes are the response.)