Blogger Hacked

Posted by michael on Friday October 25, 2002 @05:01AM from the it-must-be-friday dept.

WCityMike writes "Blogger has been severely hacked into, with users' passwords and e-mail addresses being replaced with 'hacx0redbyme' or 'hax0redbyme.' Apparently, attempts to change your password or other information do not succeed due to a major database problem. Blogger currently has no official news: its main page simply apologizes for being down for repairs and its status blog has no information, probably suffering from the same accessing problem as other blogs. In the meantime, discussion, information, and advice is appearing on the weblogs of Anil Dash and Tom Coates, as well as this QuickTopic thread. Glad I use another journaling service." We usually try to avoid "Site X Hacked!" stories, but since this affects so many people - and, heh-heh, they don't have anywhere else to talk about it - here you go.

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heh by gornar · 2002-10-25 05:03 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Blogckdown!
the results are in... by ice-nine · 2002-10-25 05:18 · Score: 0, Offtopic

the early posts made on this topic (four of 5 +3+ posts moderated funny) seem to show what most slashdotters think of blogs... they're pretty much a joke. i can't say i agree or disagree, however.

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Re:Good for them by GargoyleMT · 2002-10-25 06:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Or, alternatively, "email". I once read a great write up on why to not hyphenate "e-mail," but it was so wonderful that I've forgotten it. And you know how trying to find a URL to something is usually like a needle-in-haystack adventure.