Early last month Indian based web development Company FullStop alerted 4Square Media in an email that changes were being made to the code and that the site was being accessed from outside.
During the past 48 hours 4SQM has been able to ascertain that the intruders entered the site and changed existing stories replacing text and in some cases images with new content taken from various web sites around the world. We have also been able to identify a former ACP journalist who over a period of time supplied Media Watch with links that they claimed were plagiarised stories.
When the intruders penetrated the SmartHouse content engine site they selectively accessed old stories dating back to as far as 2004. This was done because we use a unique story code that is linked with various search capabilities including Google.
This code that is generated as soon as a new story is created stays with that content for the whole period that the story is posted to a 4Square Media web site.
