Google Sent 20,000+ Hacked Notification Messages To Webmasters Today

[Linda Buquet]

I've recently seen a few reports in the Google Places forum I help moderate but I didn't know the problem was this wide-spread.

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Google?s head of the webspam team, Matt Cutts, announced on Twitter that they have sent out new message notifications to 20,000 web sites that are hacked.

 

[djbaxter]

Wow! This is the same as the redirect exploit that continues to plague many vBulletin forum installations. It would be interesting to know what other platforms have been hit.

 

[artistictouchbhm]

Ouch! I didn't hear anything about that and I haven't noticed anything of mine down. Guess people need to frequenter change their passwords to enable a hard time for a hacker to get in.