Re: Google Groups are apparently being hacked en masse

Hi Jim,

The Groups team has been notified.

Thanks for the report!

/dmc

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Jim Douglas <jdougla@basis.com> wrote:

Over the past few days, I've noticed that more and more peoples'
profiles are showing cross-posting of their legitimate messages to
various unsavoury forums.  This doesn't appear to indicate that
accounts have been compromised (i.e. passwords hacked); it looks more
like someone has found a way to hack Google Groups to copy legitmate
posts to different groups, while making it appear that they came from
the original author.  I'm now seeing this (extremely disconcerting)
activity on my own account See:

http://www.launch.is/blog/google-groups-hacked-posts-appear-in-porn-group-with-seo-key.html

http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/fb06574b6ed8b726#

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