Hackers hijack web search results

[Gavin]

A huge campaign to poison web searches and trick people into visiting malicious websites has been thwarted.
The booby-trapped websites came up in search results for search terms such as "Christmas gifts" and "hospice".

Windows users falling for the trick risked having their machine hijacked and personal information plundered.

The criminals poisoned search results using thousands of domains set up to convince search index software they were serious sources of information.

[Patchy]

Shocking, I feel sorry for some of the people if they've had there online bank accounts wiped because that may mean not a very merry xmas :P

[Aηdy]

What's the source of this?

[Patchy]

Yeah because I've been looking up on it and I cant find any news pages on it

EDIT:

Found a news page on it
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7118452.stm

[Underground_Network]

Wow.. that's interesting... Luckily I'm not Christian.. :/

Btw, Hope they catch the bastards who did this.

[Gavin]

Yeah thats the site patchy :D

[Sugaree]

Well it happens and if you think about it it is a very well devised plan.

Alot of people do their shopping online you know