Hackers use Royal Family website to promote links to porn and casinos | UK News [Video]

The Royal Family’s website is being used by ‘Black Hat SEO’ hackers to promote thousands of links to pornography and other adult content.  

Google is investigating after the prestigious royal.uk address was hijacked by spammers posting blurbs in a mixture of Mandarin Chinese and English.

Searches on the engine show that the official URL has been ‘malformed’ to link to explicit and potentially harmful content elsewhere on the web.

The majority advertise casino and gambling sites while hundreds link to pornography in the attempt to boost search engine optimisation (SEO).

The royals are among the victims of a practice whereby hackers use the online presence of reputable organisations to promote grubby content and increase their rankings in valuable search engine listings.

Although there is no inappropriate material visible on the royal website itself, the rogue links show up in Google searches. The official title complete with the Royal Coat of …