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RIAA Website Hacked

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the maybe-someone-just-typed-rm--rf dept.

gattaca writes "A lack of security controls allowed hackers to "wipe" the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) website on Sunday. The existence of an SQL injection attack on the RIAA's site came to light via social network news site Reddit. Soon after hackers were making merry, turning the site into a blank slate, among other things. The RIAA has restored RIAA.org, although whether it's any more secure than before remains open to question, TorrentFreak reports."

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  1. Well by Chas · · Score: 5, Funny

    Normally I don't advocate cracking someone's site. It's childish and petty. Kinda like the RIAA itself.

    But, for some reason, I'm having a really hard time working up any real sense of moral outrage over it.

    This probably makes me a bad, biased person.

    C'est la vie!

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  2. Why wipe it? by Loibisch · · Score: 5, Funny

    It would have been so much better to make it a temporary mirror for thepiratebay.org :D

    Wonder if they would have started a lawsuit against themselves...

  3. Re:Let me be the first to cry by gnick · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, this falls far short of justice. Justice would have been posting a bunch of copywritten songs and announcing to the world where to find them. Even better:
    * Record an original piece
    * Post it
    * Sue the RIAA for hosting it

    Just blanking a site is lazy.

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  4. I wouldn't have wiped... by blake1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    instead I would have used my cunning to download the latest Britney album to their server in DRM-free MP3 format. And then promptly reported them to themselves.

  5. Re:Let me be the first to cry by phillymjs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just blanking a site is lazy.
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  6. Slashdotting by megazork · · Score: 5, Funny

    The OP should have posted a link to RIAA.org so that it could have been slashdotted. =)

  7. Re:wow by Osurak · · Score: 5, Funny

    So you're the most hated site on the internet essentially, especially by people who proudly go by the name "pirates". And you don't protect your site??? Who exactly is running this operation?
    Ninjas.
  8. Re:Well-It's all relative. by sponglish · · Score: 5, Funny

    If someone punches you in the face, do you beat them to death with a crowbar? No, you punch them back. If someone pulls a knife on you, do you pull out your grenade launcher?

    Yeah, well... You're not from Chicago.

    They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way... Now do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that? I'm offering you a deal. Do you want this deal?

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  9. Re:Well-It's all relative. by Captain+Splendid · · Score: 5, Funny

    If someone pulls a knife on you, do you pull out your grenade launcher?

    Sounds like the annual Cheney family reunion to me.

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  10. Re:Well-It's all relative. by derfy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hell, I say nuke them from orbit.

    It's the only way to be sure.

  11. Re:Let me be the first to cry by smittyoneeach · · Score: 5, Funny

    Irongnick?

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  12. Re:Let me be the first to cry by smittyoneeach · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they just restore the site from backup, without patching the SQL injection vulnerability, then the RIAA is RIAAlly st00p3d.
    Now, parking a whole bunch of Scientology materials on their server would be quite funny.

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    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  13. Re:Let me be the first to cry by SoulRider · · Score: 5, Funny

    I heard the scientology site got hacked this weekend and so did the RIAA website. Someone...PLEASE!...someone do it again only this time post negaive scientology propoganda on the the RIAA website and RIAA properties on the scientology website. They would have to sue each other, and considering the tactics both sides like to use the resulting trial could take 100 years or more.