Google Confesses to Blackhat Incident

Searching_ _ _ · Jan 14, 2012

Google has confessed that a number of people working for it "improperly" accessed the customer database of a rival company in Kenya to boost its own business.

The US search giant said it was "mortified" to learn that staff illicitly entered the business directory of a Kenyan listings firm, called Mocality, in an attempt to sell a competing product to the rival's customers.

The allegations were first made public in a blogpost on Friday by the chief executive of Mocality, Stefan Magdalinski, who accused Google of "telling untruths" and a "human-powered, systematic, months-long, fraudulent ... attempt to undermine our business".

Magdalinski claimed to have unearthed the alleged malpractice almost immediately after Google launched a rival initiative in the country, dubbed "Getting Kenyan Businesses Online".

Google said it immediately began investigating the accusations, which it described as "very serious". In a statement published late on Friday, the search giant confessed that some of its employees had been acting improperly.
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Google 'improperly' accessed Kenyan rival Mocality's database - The Guardian

Hungry Man · Jan 14, 2012

Yeah, I read about this. So crazy. I hope that company gets some payback.

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