Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’

The latest major technology site to be the victim of hacking is the leading tech blog TechCrunch.com. Other recent hackings of prominent sites include the Twitter.com homepage and Baidu.com, both being replaced with a message by a group calling itself the ‘Iranian Cyber Army’ claiming responsibility. The Tech Crunch attack appears to be a disgruntled reader.

As of right now, 1:26am EST on January 27th, 2009 – this is what is appearing on the TechCrunch.com homepage:

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The text at the top reads:

So Arrington, how much did all the media coverage yesterday brought you in trough the welcome.html ad you
forced
people to? What a fucking retarded move was that you twat. You should be thanking me and sucking on my fucking ballsack for not deleting everyone on the box and publishing the mysql, if that’s what you want O.K., I can do that. Also, you fucking
dickwads from sites like Yahoo!, BBC and plenty more, where the FUCK do you see adult content on
http://dupedb.com/
???????? I mean honestly, are you fucktards also in just for the money?!?!?!?!

Then it repeats the exact same thing, then you see the Tech Crunch homepage below. We’ll see how long it stays up, I suspect not long.