Mac Rumors Hacked
June 1st, 2009I was watching the live steam coming from Mac Rumors Live and then… things got a little “wired”
All of a sudden MacRumorsLive.com was saying that it was sponsored by 4chan and the KKK. The live stream flooded into a banter of typical 4chan banter. Most of it was centered around Steve Jobs dying. 4chan never pause to be crude, insensitive, and counter productive to human culture.
We are very saddened and mad that this has happened.
This is NOT hacking!
Hacking is about the pursuit of unlocking secrets, not destroying things. Even though hackers are the architects of a secure computing environment what is left in most peoples heads are things like this. Reckless people doing reckless things.
Update: Thanks to mercurysquad from reddit for finding this…
http://macrumors.com/admin was world-readable with directory listing, php files were not parsed but sent verbatim, and the shadowed .passwd file was left intact. They deserved to get hacked.
While I dont agree with the last statement this clearly illustrates that this was just a bunch of computer “crackers” (different from real hackers) messing things up for the entire hacker lot .
