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Tens of Thousands of Infowars Accounts Hacked (vice.com)
Joseph Cox, reporting for Motherboard: Tens of thousands of subscriber accounts for media company Infowars are being traded in the digital underground. Infowars, created by famed radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, produces radio, documentaries and written pieces. The dumped data relates to Prison Planet TV, which gives paying subscribers access to a variety of Infowars content. The data includes email addresses, usernames, and poorly hashed passwords. The administrator of breach notification site Databases. Land provided a copy of 100,223 records to Motherboard for verification purposes. Vigilante.PW, another breach notification service, also has the Infowars dump listed on its site, and says the data comes from 2014. However, every record appears to have been included twice in the data, making the actual number of user accounts closer to 50,000.Motherboard adds that it tested a few of the login credentials and that they worked.
Probably a false-flag operation to re-direct attention away from Mr. Jones.
That many people actually listen to Alex Jones?
... the Info Wars has.
Dark Reflection
I'm not saying it was aliens, but...
You are welcome on my lawn.
I'm no fan of Infowars (although his trolling of The Young Turks was hilarious) but I'm really really hesitant to say this is kosher. Didn't they just break several laws about unauthorized access?
Bilderberg group going after Jones attempting to discredit him. He must be on to something with his latest malarky.
You would be pretty irresponsible to register at Infowars.com using your real identity.
If you do register, you should expect that one day you will end up in someone's shit list, according to the lessons of the history. That day has come.
That being said, if only email and login credentials have been hacked, then it is not a big issue. Website will ask users to update passwords.
What's the value of having the listing of 50,000 emails? Start marketing guns, gold, food ?
Won't it be great if the FBI, ideally in collaboration with numerous other three-letter agencies, finds and prosecutes the folks who did this?
... "they" really are out to make the InfoWars people look like idiots.
Not that "they" need much help mind you:
"Oh lookie, a poorly hashed password, what idiot runs their security system?"
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Don't laugh, I've encountered conspiratorial trolls who probably think he's reptilian. Annoying bast#rds.
The news makes we want to play a really small violin.
Table-ized A.I.
Let the conspiracy theories flow! This should launch a record-breaking banner crop of conspiracy addicts and cranks from every basement in the country.
The "power elite" and their Agenda 21 plan overseen by the Illuminati, the Reptilians and Bigfoot, sponsored by George Soros and Saul Alinsky and the CIA/FBI/TSA in conjunction with the Hollywood leftists and the Bilderberg group, working hand-in-hand with the Chemtrail Society and the secret Progressive Cabal, using HAARP and MK ULTRA to convince Americans that everything is normal, nothing to see, move along citizen
Nobody talks about Majestic 12 anymore because the same (lizard) people are now running Agenda 21.
Has he blamed Hillary / the Democratic Party yet?
Since this happened in 2014, did he ever notify his tinfoil wearing followers? If not, they should really be looking at him as part of a conspiracy, as much as he normally looks at... well, everything.
I like you, Stuart. You're not like everyone else, here, at Slashdot.
Motherboard had two options: Crying wolf with no evidence or testing if they could log in (followed by immediate logout, I'm guessing) before crying wolf.
Please tell me which one is worse.
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The Illuminati invented salted hashes to sow a false sense of security among the sheeple. Don't you know anything?
You're one of them, aren't you?!!
the growth in cynicism and rebellion has not been without cause
This is gold, Jerry! Gold!
That's some real cointelpro disinfo if there ever was any. I hope you're joking.
Top-tier skit reference.
"I was in a scene in Star Wars!... but my line got cut."
"What was your line?"
"It was.. 'I'm just so tired of all these... Star Wars..'"
"... in other news, the sysadmin of "infowars.com" has been unmasked as a Reptilian agent for Agenda 21, a previously unknown terrorist organization. More news at 11."
Therefore, by the (faulty) logic you're using, you're just a cow with a keyboard - osu-neko (2604)
Let the conspiracy theories flow! This should launch a record-breaking banner crop of conspiracy addicts and cranks from every basement in the country.
The "power elite" and their Agenda 21 plan overseen by the Illuminati, the Reptilians and Bigfoot, sponsored by George Soros and Saul Alinsky and the CIA/FBI/TSA in conjunction with the Hollywood leftists and the Bilderberg group, working hand-in-hand with the Chemtrail Society and the secret Progressive Cabal, using HAARP and MK ULTRA to convince Americans that everything is normal, nothing to see, move along citizen
Nobody talks about Majestic 12 anymore because the same (lizard) people are now running Agenda 21.
You seem confused, MKultra does not equal Majestic 12.. big difference.. MK Ultra was a long run program that was confirmed to be a real thing .. where the CIA used multiple drugs and torture techniques to the end of mind control and enhanced interrogation techniques. Majestic 12 was the group in the Eisenhower white house that was responsible for covering up the supposed UFOs that were recovered at Roswell.
MK Ultra was confirmed to be a real thing, though a lot of conspiracy theories were launched from it that are complete BS..
Majestic 12 is complete fiction, any evidence that it happened is of crappy enough quality that more than a shadow of doubt is cast on it being a real thing.
Might want to research what you say before you say it.. perhaps a cursory read of Wikipedia might make you look just a little less misinformed.
So they say the data is from 2014, well they have that wrong the stolen data is actually from 2011, I received an email from Infowars letting me know they were hacked and changed my password accordingly. They were never hacked in 2014, 2015 or any other year. I have come to realize the Mothers over at Motherboard are incredibly clueless. Get a grip guys, Infowars or any of it's other sites were not hacked in 2014.
I serve the Lizard King.
https://youtu.be/7ceAK3-7DEM
You are welcome on my lawn.
This story was CONFIRMED fake as FUK! Its a YEARS old compromise, that wasn't even bad when it happened... YEARS AGO! LMMFAO! I dunno who is editor at Slashdot these past few months, but this place is turning into a liberal fukboy hangout... The news quality is FALLING OFF FAST HERE...
Agenda 21, a previously unknown terrorist organization.
Not to be confused with A21, a well-respected anti-human-trafficking organization.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
In this video he briefly denies the hack: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yf4xdGm0Nfs
Jones' dismissal sounds somewhat uninformed. But it also sounds like VICE/Motherboard saw a hashed file and then paid for only a few cracked hashes.
Sounds like Jones is claiming the "cracked hashes" were stooge accounts.
There should have been a headline a few days ago, "Hillary thinks it is worth her time to attack Alex Jones."
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That's how we know the hack is fake
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would think Alex Jones is Bill Hicks.