That North Korean Facebook Clone Has Already Been Hacked (vice.com)

Remember yesterday's story about an off-the-shelf Facebook clone in North Korea? Within a few hours that site was hacked by an 18-year-old college student in Scotland. An anonymous reader writes: Using the default credentials, Andrew McKean posted "Uh, I didn't create this site just found the login" in the site's box for Sponsored links. "McKean was able to become an admin for the site just by clicking on the 'Admin' link at the bottom of the site and guessing the username and password," writes Motherboard, which adds that the password was "password". McKean says the breach "was easy enough," and granted him the ability to "delete and suspend users, change the site's name, censor certain words and manage the eventual ads, and see everyone's emails."
The teenager said he had "no plans" for the compromised site -- except possibly redirecting it to an anti-North Korean page.

Comments

Next man up

[Anonymous Coward]

The poor shlub who administers that site has probably already been executed.

Crime

[Anonymous Coward]

I hope he is prosecuted to the full extent of the law both UK and NK, any propaganda induced biased against NK is not reason enough to commit a crime.

Re:The new generation

[techno-vampire]

I think that if I managed to hijack a site in North Korea, I'd simply redirect it to a tourism site in South Korea to let the North Koreans get a look at how the other half lives.