Alpha Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 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 website has some sort of database flood protection that disables new connections, or perhaps the RIAA themselves removed the content temporarily. The latter seems 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. Update: After a few hours the RIAA restored the site. They seem to have fixed the vulnerability, but we have saved some screenshots. Source: http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-website-hacked-080120/ Wow, I never thought this would ever happen. I'm sure this is a happy day for the pirating community. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solidius23 Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 not just hackers should be happy, anyone who is sick of paying outragous prices for music should be happy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devia Eleven Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 They got what they deserved, to say the most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucandrake Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 they shouldve implanted more crap on their server, to come back to it later,all those fukers need to die Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKKDARK Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 wow it explains why yesterday I couldn't search certifications about many artists there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoma Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 "xxs ftw!!!" lolHow powerful one can be on da web, when one has little life....*sigh*They should be like those "traitor hackers" who help antivirus companies. But dats pretty cool.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cody56 Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 This is really funny. I love that second screenshot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sybarite Paladin AxL Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 This is what people with that kinda knowledge should be focusing on imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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