MacRumors Live Feed Hacked

[Ish]

Yes, it's down.

 

[JML42691]

Isn't it offline already?!

The pictures were still up, I had a teacher behind me reading the blog when it happened. Thankfully the teacher understood that i was not trying to navigate to any of that stuff.

 

[bartelby]

quite tricky to follow.

How? Unless you find reading tricky of course...

 

[BarneysPosse]

http://img.4chan.org/b/res/107637759.html

 

[windstarfy]

I liked the blog. Because it was like reading a chat, instead of constant refreshing via Engadget

 

[Chaszmyr]

How? Unless you find reading tricky of course...

Maybe he's confused by the 800 people who have made "MacRumorsLive Hacked!!" threads.

 

[zblaxberg]

Unfortunately these guys think they are funny...

 

[Dmac77]

How did they get in?

Don

 

[tMac85]

this sucks i feel really bad

 

[windstarfy]

Here's an assumption, they're updating via Email or something, so they send to an email address and it get's updated. Someone found the email or w/e and they're sending messages to it? (I use something similar with Wordpress)

 

[iParis]

Before it was taken down I saw a bunch of explicit words, especially "f*ck."
And I noticed 4chan being mentioned.
Thank god it's down, looks like I'll be using engadget for this one.

 

[Drumjim85]

I'm glad it's been hacked but ONLY to teach people about security. I doubt the bloggers were SSH tunneling...

but what they wrote was dirty and uncalled for.

 

[Dmac77]

There was a picture of an anus. Ugh /shudders/

Get your site back arn. Find these people and kill them.

Don

 

[marold280]

what absolute dicks that are doing that. kill them i need mac news !

 

[MrNase]

If they really left the .passwd as a public file... Oh well... Too bad it's offline but else could have been done?

 

[dgouldin]

If they're using open wifi unencrypted at a tech conference, they're asking for it IMO.

 

[Pixellated]

Whoever did this is very stupid and insensetive.

 

[TrapOx]

How pathetic.

 

[wilmor42]

dont worry, it's just some bitter PC users..
what goes around comes around..
*wishing some horrid diseases on the perpetrators*

 

[Dmac77]

dont worry, it's just some bitter PC users..
what goes around comes around..
*wishing some horrid diseases on the perpetrators*

Actually one of them said that he was a linux user.

Don

 

[Blue Velvet]

All-

MacRumors Live has been broken into. We sincerely apologize, and are working swiftly to remedy the situation.

UPDATE (1PM EST): Our coverage is over. Arn will post a more formal response later, however rest assured that the site takes this incident very seriously.

For now, please visit the following excellent sites for live coverage of the Macworld keynote (no particular order):

Engadget
Gizmodo
Arstechnica

Update.

 

[Mr_Ed]

Whoever did this is very stupid and insensetive.

Yeah, but I see it more as "juvenile". I almost picture someone like my 12 year old stepson and his friends hiding in a corner making fart and poop jokes. Farther reaching implications, but juvenile nonetheless.

 

[~Shard~]

Glad I found this thread, I was wondering what had happened to the live feed. Too bad that we can't follow it on MRlive now, but engadget seems to be doing a great job - I've been tuning in there. Obviously this sucks, but I guess it's a good lesson on the importance of security if nothing else...

And I agree about the comments being totally inappropriate and so forth, but what do you expect coming from hackers? If someone is going to hack a site, they're probbaly going to try and create as much of a s#!% storm as possible. Unfortunate, but these things happen....

 

[wilmor42]

Actually one of them said that he was a linux user.

Don

i do sincerely apologize Don...

 

[nickspohn]

Someone posted fake passwords over at 4chan for all the top users (except Arn).


And also, sites seem to be linking to this specific forum, because there are over 500 viewing it..