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MacRumors Live Feed Hacked

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nickspohn said:
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..
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Good thing macrumors.com is shut down.

I am so sorry Arn. Hopefully this will be fixed soon.
 
Yes I'm very sorry that this has happened to you arn. It should have happened to gizmodo or engadget.

Don
 
Are the forums accounts safe?

Are the forums accounts password encrypted on the server?

Good luck Arn, it's going to be a rough couple weeks before everything settles.
 
Dmac77 said:
Yes I'm very sorry that this has happened to you arn. It should have happened to gizmodo or engadget.

Don
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??? What sort of comment is that?

Shame that it happened, but it looks like MRs admin panel and password file was open to the public. Stupid mistake but they will learn from it.
 
If I were MacRumors I'd press charges and sue for damages of reputation, libel, etc. Teach the guilty a lesson.
 
all this means for the future for MR and other sites is to not take security mildly.
 
I was following 4 keynote streams, and by far MacRumorsLive had the best stream, I was just thinking. What a shame the feed got hacked! :mad:
 
/b/ and /g/ at 4chan are making threads about it. All the windows users on /b/ and /g/ thought they were being funny.

It appears they pulled the passwords directly from the admin page's .htpasswd file. So much for ub3r-1337 hackers. The script-kiddies of /b/ have gotten their giggles for today.

Hopefully this should stop as soon as their computer lab classes are over. :rolleyes:
 
Luftwaffles said:
/b/ and /g/ at 4chan are making threads about it. All the windows users on /b/ and /g/ thought they were being funny.

It appears they pulled the passwords directly from the admin page's .htpasswd file. So much for ub3r-1337 hackers. The script-kiddies of /b/ have gotten their giggles for today.

Hopefully this should stop as soon as their computer lab classes are over. :rolleyes:
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i've been reading over there for the passed hour, and /b/ had nothing to do with it, it was all /g/

and the person that did this is registered on the forums "apparently" based on his comment.
 
It's a terrible shame.
The MacRumors Live liveblog was the best one yet.
It was very clean, and the interface was brilliant.
I hope the "hackers" at 4Chan are severely dealt with.
 
Luftwaffles said:
/b/ and /g/ at 4chan are making threads about it. All the windows users on /b/ and /g/ thought they were being funny.

It appears they pulled the passwords directly from the admin page's .htpasswd file. So much for ub3r-1337 hackers. The script-kiddies of /b/ have gotten their giggles for today.

Hopefully this should stop as soon as their computer lab classes are over. :rolleyes:
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That sounds more embarrassing to me than "ub3r-l337 hackers" getting into your site. The web is their business. They should know better.
 
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