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Gawker Media hacked, 1.5 million usernames stolen, CMS breached
Gawker Media, the company behind Lifehacker, Gizmodo, and several other major blogs, has been hacked. This has been an ongoing story for a couple of days now. At first it seemed only the user database had been compromised, but as further details emerged, it became evident Gawker's content management system had also been breached. A group going by the name 'Gnosis' appears to be taking credit for the hack, which itself appears to be in retaliation to references made by Gawker Media relating to 4chan and other groups. Screenshots mocking 4chan from Gawker's internal Campfire group chat have been exposed to the public.
Around 270,000 user accounts and passwords have been released so far. So, if you happen to have a user account on Gizmodo, Lifehacker or any other Gawker website, now would be a very good time to change your password.
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Subscribe to commentsPraveen PremchandranDec 13th 2010 10:27AM
I'm sure deep inside a huge closet inside of AOL's headquarters, there's a bunch of Weblogs Inc. bloggers pointing and sniggering at the Gawker blog.. No offence...
Jeff HesserDec 13th 2010 10:35AM
fortunately for them no publicity is really bad publicity on the inter webs....
RobertDec 13th 2010 10:58AM
I dont even remember if I had a commenting account...and there is no other way to find out if I did. So this is a test I guess.
MxxConDec 13th 2010 1:24PM
Its really surprising and disappointing that gawker used a simple DES encryption for passwords. what that means is only 1st 8 characters of your password matter. the rest was simply ignored.
I really hope that weblogs/aol are smarter than that and use proper encryption for their user database..
JordanDec 16th 2010 8:12PM
Anon has this remarkable capacity to fight for free speech by censoring free speech. When wiki-leaks was cut by Amazon in response to wiki-leaks, which they hosted, getting DDOS'd, they LOIC'd Amazon (without success). They also DDOS'd Paypal, and Visa. So, in order to fight for "Free speech" (when in reality this is a matter of paid hosting services) they cut of the free speech of another website.
What they essentially did here was answer a call for what appears to be a fist fight duel at their home address by hacking into their servers. They have the right to their opinion and they have the right to intimidate someone into attacking them. They don't have the right to hack into their servers or DDOS others. This is illegal on many levels. It just seems that we don't have the enforcement capacity in this country to take down a website that not only rallies organized DDOS'd attacks, but also hosts simulated child pornography and links to less-legal portions of the web, such as torrents to not only pirated software, but hacking software. (The US owns .com domain, so in theory the government is in control here.)
Will a enforcement agency get involved (such as the FBI, as this certainly qualifies as illegal under several laws) or will Gawker media sue them in a civil case, or will this be restrained to cyberwarfare? I think it's time for someone to bring law into this mess, instead of it turning into a fist fight where you bring low-orbit ion cannons in. It's only a matter of time before Anon turns rogue, or they themselves get hacked and their methods revealed. Soon, it won't be uncommon for the president's email address to be hacked into, top-secret data to be breached (Wiki leaks leaked 'secret' data but the US govt has a habit of making many trivial things secret), predator drones and missile/missile defense systems to be remote controlled by unintended users.
What if Al'Qaeda had the hacking powers of anon?
mooglinuxDec 24th 2010 2:04AM
testing if i have a commenting account