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NVIDIA Kills Online Store In Response To Hacker Claims

Posted by Soulskill on from the have-you-tried-updating-your-drivers dept.

wiredmikey writes "Following a shutdown of its 'NVIDIA Developer Zone,' earlier this week after the online community for developers had been hacked, the graphics chip maker on Friday also shut down its online store. The group of hackers behind the attack, going by the handle of 'The Apollo Project,' made mention of the claimed compromise in its original post exhibiting its successful attack against the NVIDIA Developer Zone site. While the company has shut down the online store, it has not acknowledged that a successful attack has taken place. 'NVIDIA has suspended operation of the NVIDIA Gear Store (store.nvidia.com) as a precaution, following confirmed attacks on several of our other sites,' read a statement posted on the site posted. The claimed attackers wrote, 'We aren't acting extremely maliciously, we've used this database to target disgusting corporations who deserve to be brought to justice.. and we are getting there, slowly but surely.'"

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  1. Vigilante circus. by Ostracus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The claimed attackers wrote, 'We aren't acting extremely maliciously, we've used this database to target disgusting corporations who deserve to be brought to justice.. and we are getting there, slowly but surely.'"

    1-what crime?

    2-Who died and made them the long arm of the law?

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    1. Re:Vigilante circus. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Exactly. NVidia hasn't done anything of note except produce good video cards and GPUs.

      They must be disgruntled about 3DFX like I am.

    2. Re:Vigilante circus. by Darkness404 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Don't like nVidia's prices? Don't buy it. Last time I checked nVidia didn't hold a gun to your head and force you to put in a new nVidia graphics card.

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    3. Re:Vigilante circus. by Mashiki · · Score: 3, Insightful

      1-what crime?

      2-Who died and made them the long arm of the law?

      Despite that I'll be modded into oblivion for this. This isn't any different that what OWS protesters have been doing for months on end, and it hasn't been any different than what the student protesters have been doing in Quebec have been doing for months on end. In both cases they've been going off the deep end and getting more violent, believing that "corporations" or "schools" or "wall street" need to be brought to justice for crimes against who knows what. I'm sure the grievances are very valid in their minds, and whatever they tell themselves, or are being told by whatever professor or community organizer or handler is telling them to believe, but that doesn't make it so.

      As for the question of "who died and made them the long arm of the law?" Well that's obvious, they made themselves the long arm of the law. This is the pure anti-corporatism of the left.

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    4. Re:Vigilante circus. by girlintraining · · Score: 4, Insightful

      1-what crime?

      Making profit.

      2-Who died and made them the long arm of the law?

      Nobody died and they aren't the law.

      This isn't vigilantism, this is simple defacement and theft. Vigilantism is motivated by a desire for justice, and a perceived indifference or selective enforcement of laws. They haven't stated what crimes NVidia should be held accountable for; which means there probably aren't any. Some examples of what 'proper' vigilantism might be motivated by would be illegal dumping of toxic waste, mistreatment of their workforce, manipulation of stock prices, colluding with other manufacturers to fix the prices of key information commodities, or excerting monopoly powers over a market.

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    5. Re:Vigilante circus. by DigiShaman · · Score: 3

      You must be talking about the Monster 3D II. The original Diamond Monster 3D was a Voodoo 1 card. SLI wasn't implemented until the Voodoo 2 series.

      Ok, turning back the wayback machine here. But here's a breakdown (from memory) of my old but much loved gaming rig. The year was late 1996

      CPU = Intel Pentium 166
      Motherboard = Biostar AT with 430FX chipset
      RAM = 24MB of EDO
      Audio = Sound Blaster AWE34 PnP (long ISA card with upgradable SIMM banks)
      Modem = USRobotics Sportster 33.6 (internal ISA card)
      Storage1 = 1GB Conner IDE HDD
      Storage2 = 4x CDROM IDE
      Storage3 = 3.25 1.44MB Floppy drive
      Video1 = Diamond Stealth64 Video S3-Vision968 PCI with 2MB (upgradable to 4MB) of VRAM.
      Video2 = Diamond Monster 3D
      Input = Microsoft serial mouse and some generic AT keyboard.

      That machine was a BOSS for its time. It owned all gaming back then. Never broke a sweat when playing Duke Nukem3D.

      Total cost = shitloads. Actually, I don't remember. My parents paid for the base build as a graduation present. I just paid for the gaming upgrades.

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  2. Forums are offline as well by Pop69 · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's not just what's mentioned in the summary.

  3. Actual post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://pastebin.com/G21ytATD

  4. Re:Sh*t happens... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So NVIDIA doesn't support your preferred OS in exactly the way you'd like, and therefore they deserve to have their systems broken into?