IP: Hacker posts phony press release -- from Risks

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

[I have suggested in the past that a similar announcement via a hackin at a 
major online news site (or newpaper site) could have interesting results df )


>Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 18:57:26 -0500
>From: "Edelson, Doneel" <doneel.edelson@eulergroup.com>
>Subject: Hacker posts phony press release
>
>A fake press release announced a merger of Aastrom Biosciences Inc.  with
>Geron Inc., a California biopharmaceutical house.  Aastrom stock fell, while
>Geron rose.  Aastrom asserted that the message on their Website was totally
>bogus, and presumably the result of a penetration.  [Source: United Press
>International - 17 Feb 2000; PGN-ed]