I was doing a Google search this morning on some PageRank related information and Matt Cutts’ blog was in one of the results. Instead of finding the page I expected to see, when I clicked the link I saw this page:

If you don’t already know who Matt Cutts is, he’s a popular blogger who also happens to work for Google. His blog is a great source of information for anyone who’s interested in Page Rank and Google Analytics and SEO in general.

This hacking attack on a prominent blogger just underscores once again the need to stay on top of your upgrades and be cognizant of security issues. It’s almost inevitable that the most high profile sites on the web will be hacked or compromised in some way eventually, though, just because of their popularity. The more people who know you, the more bad guys out there will want to put a target on you.

The hacked pages are still up as of right now, but you can see the original pages as cached by Google if you do a search and click on Cached. I’m assuming Matt knows about this and is working to restore his pages now, but if you know of a way to contact him, please do.

Update: It looks like Matt’s had his revenge. Either that or this is another April Fool’s Day prank! Thanks to Andrew and Rick for the update.