Hacked Opera starts spinning like crazy

Although the Opera web browser client is no longer the big 'little player' that it used to be having long since been eclipsed by the likes of Chrome and Firefox in the Internet Explorer alternatives stakes, it can still claim more than 300 million users and a place as world’s most popular browser for mobile phones. So when you learn that Opera Software, the company in Norway behind the Opera browser, has admitted that its internal network infrastructure has been hacked you have every right to be a little concerned. That concern may grow a bit when you discover that "at least one" code-signing certificate was stolen. It starts getting a tad on the large side when, in the next breath, Opera Software also admit that certificate has been used to "distribute malicious software which incorrectly appears to have been published by Opera Software, or appears to be the Opera browser" according to an official spokesperson.