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Google Palestine site defaced to display political message

August 26, 2013

Google’s localized Palestine site has been defaced by hackers. The Hackteach group is taking credit for the breach.

A message posted to the site reads:

uncle google we say hi from palestine to remember you that the country in google map not called israel. its called Palestine

Earlier this year, Google updated its Palestinian search engine to display ”Palestine” instead of ”Palestinian Territories”. The company made the changes to fall in line with a UN change of status that re-classified Palestine as a non-member observer instead of an entity.

Update: A Google representative told Al Arabiya that a DNS error in Palestine caused the mix-up and has since been resolved. The spokesperson also emphasized that Google services in Palestine and Google.com had not been hacked.

➤ Google Palestine

Headline image credit: John MacDougall / AFP / Getty Images

SOURCE: The Next Web – Read entire story here.

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