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by no-brainer 4535 days ago
apparently this stuff happens all the time...

"Quite a few of these hijackings were my properties so I wanted to leave a few thoughts. This is not unusual activity, especially in the affiliate space, it simply got press this time. This has been happening for quite some time, albeit at a smaller scale. I will even go as far as to say it is the same group of affiliates. RoomsToBook is affiliated with RoomWhiz(z) which was an offending affiliate less than 2 months ago.

Read more: http://blog.sweetiq.com/2014/01/expedia-affiliate-hacked-goo...