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QQQ website hacked by Turkish-American video game clan? - [02/20/03]
Site was defaced, actually, on Feb 19. That's what you would call it when someone else changes or rearranges files on a website in order to get attention. It's almost always just HTML thats changed, too. This is a real popular prank for anti-corporate activists, they'll do things like change the headlines on a news page to draw attention to the terrible shit that company does. Instead this group replaced our cute little entry page with their Mortal Kombat/American flag logo. Its funny they bothered with a little site like ours as we don't keep personal info, credit cards, social security numbers, or even pictures of our naked girlfriends on the server, which are all valuable things a real hacker wants to get his hands on and sell.
Probably what they did was run some sort of program that tests security on hundreds of accounts on hundreds of servers all day long, and maybe once in a while they find one where a program can fake that it has admin access and then overwrite the main index file. I'm sure that there wasn't even a real person at the computer when they found us.
These Turkish hackers (whose site was in pseudo-Japanese with English menus?) published their web address, contact info, mailing addresses right on the fake homepage they generated at QQQ. What kind of dumb ass "hackers" want to be caught, unless its just publicity for their video game clan or maybe they are trying to get noticed and hired into IT jobs? Lots of companies are payrolling their hackers to be programmers; Microsoft does lots of that (if you can't beat 'em, hire 'em). Anyway, our hosting service says its fixed and passwords have been updated, etc., and the lame little hackers will probably never come back.