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

Posted by EditorDavid on from the suggested-posts dept.

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.

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  1. Hacked? Really? by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The word "hacked" is overused. Making a fairly easy assumption that the default UID / PID has not been changed by some rube North Koreans who didbn't expect anyone to notice the demo site is hardly a "hack".

    On the other hand, I'll bet that the REAL North Korean intel guys gathered a whole lot of data from the honeypot site.

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    1. Re:Hacked? Really? by turbidostato · · Score: 4, Insightful

      "Hack means to gain unauthorised access to a system."

      That's a crack.

      A hack is any clever and usually unexpected use of technology to accomplish a task.

  2. Next man up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

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

  3. The new generation by fred911 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "The teenager said he had "no plans" for the compromised site"

      Ah these young'ins, back in the day it would be goatse.cx 'ed or at the very minimum a penis bird!

      Jeeze what's this world become.

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    1. Re:The new generation by techno-vampire · · Score: 4, Interesting

      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.

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  4. Crime by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

  5. Re:That's the best you could think of? by Opportunist · · Score: 2

    How uninspired. The true gold would be:

    1. Make a few insanely absurd new rules for the North Korean people. This is actually the challenging part for a people that already had mandatory haircuts, I agree.
    2. Point a few western news networks at the page.
    3. Watch the ensuing hilarity when they start gobbling up your insanity as reality.

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  6. Re:Safety by Mr+D+from+63 · · Score: 2

    I'm not sure I'd put my real name on any sort of embarrassment to the North Koreans. They are rather unpredictable.

    I predict North Korea will have at least one less (living) IT staff members.