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The Register Hacked

Posted by samzenpus on from the down-time dept.

First time accepted submitter rjmx writes "Looks like The Register has been hacked. Its front page has been replaced with a page in tasteful red and black, apparently by a Turkish hacker."

4 of 192 comments (clear)

  1. oh shit! by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Funny

    looks like the hacker retroactively stole all their credibility!

    --
    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

    1. Re:oh shit! by mickwd · · Score: 5, Informative

      Too late: his credibility is lost :D

  2. Re:HAxorS by zonky · · Score: 5, Informative

    Looks like a number of sites affected, all of them seem to be using netnames.co.uk as their registrar, looks like DNS Servers all changed.

  3. Corrections by Artem+S.+Tashkinov · · Score: 5, Informative

    If cannot live without The Register, put into your hosts file

    Linux: /etc/hosts
    Windows: C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\host

    these two lines:

    72.3.246.59 theregister.co.uk
    72.3.246.59 www.theregister.co.uk

    And the summary of the article is apparently wrong, someone stole/hacked into TheRegister DNS zone, TheRegister www servers are intact.