Hackers wipe the RIAA website.

[Omega X]

http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-website-hacked-080120/
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It started out on the social news website Reddit, where a link to a really slow SQL query was posted. While the Reddit users were trying to kill the RIAA server, someone allegedly decided to up the ante and wipe the site’s entire database.

The comments on Reddit are only speculation so far. Based on the username, which was apparently “webReadOnly”, it might not have been setup correctly, or someone could have found another way to delete the content form the site.

Another possibility is that the RIAA themselves removed the content temporarily. This would seem unlikely, as a better solution would be to take it entirely offline to fix the bigger problem. While they could fix a small vulnerability like this in a matter of seconds, the chances are it’s not an isolated problem.

As pointed out by Haywire, playing around with the urls a bit can return some funny results. It is pretty easy to make the RIAA link to The Pirate Bay for example.

For now it sure does look like all the content has been wiped from the RIAA homepage. Let’s hope they have backups, or not.
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There are pictures at the link. They cleaned a ton of pages and put in a link for The Pirate Bay.

[P$ycHo™]

ftw!

hopefully they don't have backups.

[swingdjted]

Heh, I love it.

[nadavraj]

They had 100% poor defence in hacking.
Any webmster deserve this ... if not keep secret admin password

[tuckerm]

Originally posted by

ame
They had 100% poor defence in hacking.
Any webmster deserve this ... if not keep secret admin password

Not really, no one deserves to be hacked no matter what they do. Besides, ALL sites are hackable.

[k_rock923]

Sneakernet ftw