HD Moore has been owned. That’s hacker talk, meaning that Moore, the creator of the popular Metasploit hacking toolkit, has become the victim of a computer attack.

It happened on Tuesday morning, when Moore’s company, BreakingPoint, had some of its Internet traffic redirected to a fake Google page that was being run by a scammer. According to Moore, the hacker was able to do this by launching what’s known as a cache poisoning attack on a DNS server on AT&T’s network that was serving the Austin, Texas, area. One of BreakingPoint’s servers was forwarding DNS traffic to the AT&T server, so when it was compromised, so was HD Moore’s company. (Listen to a podcast about a recent DNS attack.)

When Moore tried to visit Google.com, he was actually redirected to a fake page that served up a Google page in one HTML frame along with three other pages designed to automatically click on advertisements.

No BreakingPoint computer was actually compromised by the incident, but it was still pretty annoying.