Security experts are wondering why Google is throwing its toys out of the pram over hacks of its servers by China.

Google has threatened to shut down its Chinese operation after hackers stole emails from Gmail accounts belonging to dissidents. However insecurity experts say that the attacks were run of the mill and the sort of thing you see on the world wide wibble every day.

Mikko Hypponen, of security firm F-Secure said there was nothing ground-breaking in this attack they happen all the time. It is just that most companies just never go public. He added that human-rights activists are the biggest target. Everyone from Freedom for Tibet to Falun Gong supporters and those involved in Liberation of Taiwan are hit.

Google said only two Gmail accounts were accessed and that hackers got very limited information. This included when the account was set up and the subject line rather than content of e-mail messages.

So the question is, why is Google making such a big thing about all this?