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SSRN Hacked?

David Zarig:

My colleague Andrea Matwyshyn noticed that a couple of her papers up on SSRN had been retagged as published during the EFMA 2003 Helsinki Meetings.  So has one of mine.  So has one of Gordon’s.  So, as of this writing, has one of Bernard Black’s.  Neither Andrea nor I were at the EFMA 2003 Helsinki meetings, so we can’t say whether we would have seen Bernie or Gordon there, but we are beginning to think something fishy is going on.

Emails sent to SSRN.  No explanation yet about our surprising yen for the Helsinki of 2003.

Almost all of my SSRN-posted papers also have been hijacked by whoever is doing this. SSRN needs to find out how and why this happened ASAP. Fix it. And prevent it from happening again.

Update: I’m told it’s probably a bug.