MacWorld MacRumors Live Feed Hacked
I was watching the MacWorld 2009 Apple Keynote live when a message appeared in the feed–”STEVE JOBS JUST DIED”–surprising everyone. In a few minutes, the MacRumors feed was full of coordinated hacked spam:
Highlighted is the beginning of the spam
MacRumors apologized for the incident: “Our MacRumorsLive keynote coverage was hacked today, inserting inappropriate content into the text and photo feeds. We apologize for the inconvenience and are working to restore our services.” However, it was simply negligence on their part for having a control panel which was publicly accessible rather than some kind of nefarious hack. One of the nicer 4chan readers took this screenshot of it before it was taken offline:
See also When Livestreams Go Wrong and 4chan’s /g board where the chaos originated. Hopefully this will teach bloggers and web startups to pay more attention to the security of their websites, as hacking websites is growing more and more popular with savvy internet pranksters.
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Hopefully this will teach the world to shoot those 4chan guys. ******' sociopaths have no place in our gene pool.
[...] been bumped off the board), so I can’t tell how involved they were, however according to Elliot C. Back they were involved quite a bit (especially as the official response from MacRumors mentions [...]
4chan will **** you up.
Elliott, they've got Facebook Connect for Disqus now, you gonna try it out?