WTF!!! Yahoo front page displaying Arabic news articles (hacked??)

[huggzy]

Anybody else check their yahoo front page and see this?!?!

 

[Fred Zed]

Yahoo looks fine here, must be your computer settings that are at fault

 

[bcneil]

Mine is normal as well.

 

[huggzy]

Yahoo looks fine here, must be your computer settings that are at fault

No...I'm not saying its translating North American articles into Arabic. It has Arabic articles from Bahrain, Morocco, Egypt etc. in Arabic on the Yahoo.ca website mixed with Canadian content.

Its just wierd, that's all. Was just wondering if anyone else was getting these:

http://maktoob.news.yahoo.com/الاخبار-العالمية/

on this site:

http://ca.yahoo.com/

 

[sales]

mine was like that today for a few minutes as well.

 

[huggzy]

ca.yahoo is fine and maktoob is supposed to be in Arabic.
Check your regional settings, you may have somehow set your self as being somewhere in the Arab world.

I have a PC set to Japanese (region) and even going to English sites will give me Japanese (the site offers both and uses your settings to determine what language to show you.)

It was wierd. Its ok now...but yesterday it was a mix of Canadian and Arabic news. The Arabic news (when translated) was about things we don't read about here either - all sorts of people dead in a skimish in Iraq (over 40 people). People being slaughtered in Bahrain. Other kinds of news as well...but they were mixed in the same setup as the normal yahoo news here in Canada.

It was a bit of an eye opener - it just seemed from the bits and pieces I was able to translate is that there's a lot more "dying" going on over there then what our news here is reporting.

 

[SFMIKE]

Might even be a disgruntled Yahoo employee.

Recently, the new CEO has informed the employees that they will have to start coming to work, instead of working from home.

Never know. All things are possible.

 

[Aleister Crowley]

Camel Jockies playing games again.

 

[Miss*Bijou]

Camel Jockies playing games again.

....still better than Online Bigots producing lame, racist posts.


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