Google have admitted to accidentally deleting the company's official blog web site on Monday night, after a user temporarily took possession of the Web address.
On Monday at 23:15 (Pacific Time) a Google product manager confirmed that the Google Blog had earlier been deleted by mistake and that the blog address was "temporarily claimed by another user".
Google got off quite lightly during this "error", as the user who claimed their web address as his own left a simple message on the site which read,
"Google, fix your blog pleeasssee! P.S. Just to clear things up, I'm not associated with Google at all. I just wanted to take advantage of this before someone else with less worthy intentions did."
A screen shot of the replaced Google Blog is available.
Jason Goldman, Blogger Product Manager at Google issued a short statement on the Google Blog site,
"The Google Blog was unavailable for a short time tonight. We quickly learned from our initial investigation that there was no systemwide vulnerability for Blogger. We'll let you know more about what did happen once we finish looking into it."
Followed shortly by this update,
"Update: We've determined the cause of tonight's outage. The blog was mistakenly deleted by us (d'oh!) which allowed the blog address to be temporarily claimed by another user. This was not a hack, and nobody guessed our password. Our bad."
Whoops.
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