Micro Persuasion: Google Corporate Blog Gets Hacked

Sunday, October 08, 2006

Google Corporate Blog Gets Hacked

Google Blogoscoped is reporting that Google's official corporate blog was hacked over the weekend. The Google Blog for a brief time yesterday had an unattributed fake post on it that said the Google Click to Call program had been cancelled. The Google Blog has now confirmed that a breach occured.

I wonder if this is going to make it hard to plead the case to the SEC that blogs should be a disclosure point. Personally, I don't think we should limit this to just blogs. RSS should be a disclosure point. Regardless, the fraud risks for blogs are no worse than for press releases or other online communication vehicles.

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