Google hacked over Malaysia-Filipino standoff
5 March 2013 6:51 AM IST
Supporters of an armed bid by Filipino intruders to lay claim to a Malaysian state took their campaign to cyberspace on Monday, manipulating Google search listings to show a message backing the incursion.
A Google search for the word ‘Sabah’, the state at the centre of Malaysia’s biggest security crisis in years, came back with a search results page that quotes ‘Wikipedia’ calling Malaysian control of the state ‘illegitimate.’
‘Sabah is illegitimately considered one of the 13 member states of Malaysia, and is said to be its easternmost state but in fact, it is part of the Sultanate of Sulu,’ the passage read.
A Google search for the word ‘Sabah’, the state at the centre of Malaysia’s biggest security crisis in years, came back with a search results page that quotes ‘Wikipedia’ calling Malaysian control of the state ‘illegitimate.’
‘Sabah is illegitimately considered one of the 13 member states of Malaysia, and is said to be its easternmost state but in fact, it is part of the Sultanate of Sulu,’ the passage read.
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