Gawker.com hack attack
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Dutch Freedom Party leader Geert Wilder isn’t alone in suffering recent hack attacks.
aLpTurkTegin defaced almost 150 with sites with insults to the Dutch politician.
Now, sites run by Gawker Media were forced offline after an apparent attack, also by hackers, says the New York Times, going on:
“As such, devoted readers of the company’s flagship site, Gawker.com, which chronicles Manhattan-centric media machinations, may have missed such tidbits of gossip as Ryan O’Neal accidentally hitting on his daughter Tatum at Farrah Fawcett’s funeral and the Twitter habits of Sarah Palin’s hairdresser.”
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The attack was aimed at Consumerist.com, the story has Gawker Media CEO Thomas Plunkett saying, but the rest of the Gawker universe was collateral damage, it says, going on:
“Gawker sold Consumerist to Consumers Union, the nonprofit group that publishes Consumer Reports magazine, late last year, but Gawker still hosts the site.”
However, adds the NYT, “there seemed to be some disagreement. A spokesman for Consumers Union suggested it was unclear that Consumerist was indeed the target.
“All we know as of now is the entire Gawker network had a service interruption,” spokesman Ken N. Weine is quoted as declaring.
“The only thing that’s clear is Consumerist has passionate readers who, like us, are happy the site is back up, fighting for consumers.”
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New York Times – Gawker`s Blogs, for a Time, Are Silenced by Hackers, August 4, 2009
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