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Google has local domains for almost every country in the world. Just now some hackers from Palestine hacked into Google's Palestine domain (https://google.ps/) and defaced it
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The message appearing on the defaced page says, "uncle google we say hi from Palestine to remember you that the country in google map not called Israel. Its called Palestine # Question : what would happen if we changed the country title of Isreal to Palestine in google maps !!! It would be a revolution .. So Listen to rihanna and be cool :P"

The most likely scenario is that Google itself hasn't been breached. Instead, it appears as the hacker forwarded/ redirected the DNS to a new page.

The virtual names of the hackers behind the hack are ,"Cold z3ro - Haml3t - Sas - Dr@g" from Palestine.

Currently, the website is defaced while writing this update.

Reported by The Hacker News reader 'Hanamichi Kurotsuchi'.

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