Google Images Hacked? Searches Bring Up Images of Russian Car Accident

http://time.com/3181662/google-images-hacked-russian-car-accident/

by tmcb • 12 years ago

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xmpir• 12 years ago

for me it works as usual

tux33• 12 years ago

This has been all over the web for the past 5 hours.

As usual it's probably nothing.

thisjepisje• 12 years ago

There's images of car crashes and Kevin Durant all over google images, that's quite something if you ask me.

tux33• 12 years ago

What I meant is, it's probably a bug, not a major hack or paranormal magic (as oposed to normal magic) like some have claimed.

imd23• 12 years ago

Maps is also affected.

sp332• 12 years ago

How is maps affected?

crazypyro• 12 years ago

It shows red traffic on every road, due to excessive crashing. (Only joking)

GFischer2• 12 years ago

It's made headlines for my country's biggest newspaper

http://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/busqueda-fotos-google-a...

and I can confirm it affects Uruguay (and it looks like all of South America as well).

talles2• 12 years ago

Brazil here. Affecting us here too.

pacey• 12 years ago

I'm just getting reports from some German ISP customers being also affected while customers of other providers in the same area are not seeing any issues.

wil421• 12 years ago

Works for me just fine.

Why do people say something was "hacked" every time a technical issues arises? Did something actually happen or is it just a bug somewhere?

bindirector• 12 years ago

Russian car accident images being ubiquitously dumped to unsuspecting Internet users via a common resource as Google Image Search absolutely _reaks_ of 4chan. Tossing in Durant just somehow seems to shore it up. I'd be very surprised if this were just a bug.

tux33• 12 years ago

4chan was as clueless as everyone else, this time.

comboy• 12 years ago

It's a cache problem, and it's clearly visible once you click on specific image.

Here's an "official" thread: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/gNv...

golergka• 12 years ago

I would argue that it doesn't If it was 4chan, it would be nazi cp guro car accident.

talles2• 12 years ago

An official statement by Google would be great

xg15• 12 years ago

As the Kevin Durant image is also a popular image for memes, this would actually speak for a hack.

Without having read the reddit thread, has anyone checked the pages that are actually "found" by the image searches? It seems kind of unusual to me that this single image is actually hosted often enough that so many hits can appear in the search, hacked or not.

Google Images Hacked? Searches Bring Up Images of Russian Car Accident

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