Most Boring Hack EVER Hits Manhattan Supreme Court Website

At left, accused Skanks in NYC blogger Rosemary Port's Facebook photo; at right, Liskula Cohen.

Dude, the Manhattan Supreme Court Website got so pwn'd yesterday! Someone out there in computerland is mighty pissed about a recent court decision that forced Google to reveal the identity of a blogger who wrote bad things about former model Liskula Cohen.

So yesterday visitors (all three of them) to the Manhattan Supreme Court website got quite a surprise when they used Google to search for "SCROLL," the court’s case-search page. Instead of getting the SCROLL, they were linked to a PDF of the infamous "Skanks in NYC" lawsuit! Suck on that, Supreme Court!

The Post reports that the hack occurred when the court site is searched through Google, not other search engines. To be honest, we're not even really sure exactly what happened here, but apparently a hack did totally occur, and the court got sent a message. Those judges better tread softly in the future, or their precious website's gonna get a Goatse next.

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By John Del Signore in News on October 9, 2009 10:46 AM

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jaycjay

Absolutely not a hack, and has nothing to do with the servers at the court. Just a quirk at Google, most likely occurring because that particular case is the one that's linked to most frequently (or the only linked to) from other popular or authoritative sites.

That particular search is returning the url of that pdf. At Yahoo or other search engines, it's returning just the main search page.

Dirk

For the love of god... no links to goatse!

potsmoker

its goat cx or goatse.cx

i guess youll get millions of comments when people start googling and finding that image is def NOT safe for work, home, church or eyeballs