Google Went Down ... Were They Hacked?

Google went offline for a while tonight. Google Blogoscoped was the first to report it, noticing that Google.com, Google News, and Froogle were down. Link: Search Engine Watch posted time-stamped updates. At 7:35 pm (Eastern) they had Google.com, Froogle and Gmail, but not News or Froogle.com. At 8:00 pm everything was working. At 8:30, Google's David Krane sent out an official statement, which read: Google's global properties were unavailable for a short period of time earlier today. We've remedied the problem and access to Google has been restored worldwide. Om Malik had this from David Krane: Yes, it was a DNS issue. We're seeing things as fully restored as of more than 30 min. ago. You're the first to send such a screen shot and report this kind of issue. I'll bounce it to the tech staff and will keep you posted. This refuting reports that Google was not just down, but hacked. Screenshots have been popping up of Google redirecting to a MSN Search. Also, a KCBS, a San Francisco area news radio station, got in on it, with a radio update on the situation. The I tried to figure out who the female anchor was, with no luck (help me out if you know). Nathan Weinberg writes the popular InsideGoogle blog.